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80' EDEN HAZARD IS OFF
80'Chris Foy talks to Hazard and Lampard, a long chat.
79'The ballboy looks hurt and there's arguments among the players. If that's been seen it has to be a red card.
78'The ballboy goes to get the ball and lies on top of it to stop Hazard reclaiming. Hazard them kicks out at the ballboy to get it back quickly!
Seems the ballboy would be at fault no?
Oh, we can only hope for a Suarez-style defense: "It is a cultural misunderstanding! In Belgium, kicking the ballboy is a sign of fraternal affection."
Your move, Jeffrey Maier.
Good.
What is it with Chelsea that makes every single one of their players turn into a total dick?
Whatever the fault of the ballboy, there's no clause in soccer laws that makes it legal to kick out at rule breakers.
The kick was stupid as all hell but WTF is the ball boy doing sitting on the ball like that?
Red card is justified but that kid needs no sympathy.
Agree 100%.
I kind of hope the locals try and press charges on Hazard. That would be all kinds of humorous.
Jens Lehmann too slow for Hannover ballboy
A classic moment at White Hart Lane
Old Timey goodness
Again, Hazard did knock him over in the first place. Granted, the ballboy made a meal of the whole thing.
Charlie Morgan™ ?@CHARLIEM0RGAN
The king of all ball boys is back making his final appearance #needed #for #timewasting
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Methinks Hazard, the ball boy and Swansea will all get a talking to after this one.
Also, not sure how old the kid is but he's drinking in his profile pic. Not trying to defend Hazard at allo but think this guy is a total disgrace. The older he is, the worse he becomes.
EDIT: Turns out he is 17. So, he's basically an adult. What a douche.
Do the English care about teenage drinking?
Only in social orders lower than one's own.
Hey now, the Welsh have a club in Europe every year. Usually it's TNS or Bangor City or someone, though. They don't do that CONCACAF thing where they make sure the best club from the country gets into the CL or, in Canada's case, Toronto FC by default (before Vancouver and Montreal arrived, naturally).
I miss all the good stuff that happens in the second half.
edit: Just following the MBM on my way home, it would seem Rafa's subs were kind of insipid, no?
I haven't really been following the tournament, but all of the games are available on replay. Could someone suggest a game that's been played so far that would be good to watch on replay?
Then well played to him, I guess. He made his last game count!
I haven't really been following the tournament, but all of the games are available on replay. Could someone suggest a game that's been played so far that would be good to watch on replay?
Togo-Ivory Coast was a bit slow but dramatic and featured some quality players. Watching Morocco get flummoxed by Cape Verde was kind of fun, too.
But I think Hazard should get quite a bit more than three games. That kick wasn't just dangerous play, it was simply a violent act intended to injure.
So far the ACN hasn't featured much quality football for spectators - there's a lot of typical early round conservative play, combined with 90+ degree temperatures killing the tempo of the games. Even in the best games, you get wonderful, dynamic play for a couple minutes, then a bunch of recovery time. Togo - Cote d'Ivoire was like that, and is worth watching for the parts where it gets really good.
Thanks - I'll try that game.
I really can't stop laughing at the absurdity of the entire thing. If only Terry could have been involved somehow.
I don't know, this is a violent act intended to injure. Hazard's seemed more like a violent act intended to get the kid to roll over, but yeah maybe worth more than 3 games.
But still, you cannot be doing that, even if the kid is a jackass and you look like a petulant child when you do it.There's still time! He must have a public statement to offer on this, given that he is a courageous leader of men, much like a soldier in so many ways.
[Edit] So I wrote that without watching the video. Having seen the video I can't believe the words violent and attempt to injure are being used to describe his actions. He did nothing but try and get the ball back in the easiest way possible against someone intentionally trying to distort the outcome of the game. The fact that he is a paid employee of one of the teams makes it worse not better. Hazard should have his penalty rescinded and Swansea should forfeit the game.
Hazard is a hero and my new favourite player. Seriously, if I was Hazard I wouldn't apologize and would defend myself to the end. There is a line in the sand where we stop being a civilized society. This is it.
Luckily it seems that most quotes in the press are recognizing the wrongs on both sides of the issue.
Not at all surprising that a son/nephew of a club member/friend of a club member gets a job like that. I think I'd be more surprised if it was some random kid.
Not to worry, the whole thing probably started because Terry was sleeping with the kid's girlfriend.
He didn't hit him. He kicked at the ball. It's not like he stomped on his face.
Another preschool lesson is that no one likes a tattle-tale. It's not Hazard's job (or any person's job) to wait around for the referee to dispense justice. It is their job to act justly. One of the chief things wrong with our society is that we abdicate responsibility for justice to higher authorities who aren't worthy of that responsibility. The ball was Hazard's by right and he acted to enforce that right. I have no problem with it and think he showed restraint.
To hear you describe it you'd think he beat the ballboy while he was down when he actually barely touched him.
Actually it is.
Hazard doesn't dare to be your hero, the wimp:
With that said, let's get back to something we can all agree is hilarious.
Ball boys are usually youth team players or teenagers from the club's junior teams. My brother did the job a couple of times via this route.
I couldn't stop laughing when I saw the replay. Comedy of the absurd all around.
I keep wondering how that situation would have played out if Hazard were Ray Lewis. Something tells me things would have turned out differently.
Hell, imagine old school Dick Butkus being in that situation. My lord...
This is absolutely hilarious on so many levels. The latest ESPN "column" being just the most recent example.
What a maroon (applied to pretty much everyone involved).
That said, you don't get to kick people for being idiots.
Swansea should be punished, the ball-guy should be banned for a year from any matches, and Hazard should get a three-game suspension.
Oh, and referees should punish time-wasting with an iron fist so as to prevent idiocy like this from even happening.
I'm going more towards Gaelan's opinion here. #### that kid. Hazard did nothing wrong. Had I been in the same situation I would have done the same thing.
EDIT: Saw another angle. It's even worse. This guy is scum. To Hell with Swansea and their douche bag board member sons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubL5ux5WcBg
edit: Also, it's kind of a bummer that ballboy-gate is taking the spotlight off Swansea shutting Chelsea out over 2-legs and nothing in Hazard's game makes me thing he's a dirty or overly aggressive player. Unfortunate all around.
Compare Zaha to Blackpool's Thomas Ince, another winger, who is about ten months older and has been linked to a Premier League transfer at a lower cost. With 13 goals (7th in the Championship), 11 assists (2nd), Ince is only player in the top ten in both stats. He's also taken 72 shots, putting 39 on target. That's the sort of thing you'd like to see in an expensive transfer target from a lower league.
That doesn't excuse Hazard kicking him. Even if you take the more benign view that Hazard is kicking the ball it's a ball being held by someone and that's a dangerous act. If Michu was rolling around on top of the ball like that and Hazard "kicked the ball" like that there would be no argument that a red card was deserved (probably for both).
Both people in this situation acted inappropriately.
I'm with #1159 (or 1150, which basically says the same thing) on this issue. But I can't believe of all the times for Hazard to lash out like that, he does it in the League Cup. The League Cup! I know--as Arsenal would be happy to tell you--that a trophy is a trophy, but goodness me, you couldn't wait to do that in a competition that really matters?
The inevitable. I thought there was a chance they might try to do with the Bundesliga and the Brazilian top flight what they did for English soccer but they're probably making the right call.
I found this googling Valencia. So, you have a municipality that is in debt which now has a stake in 3 debt ridden clubs that owe money to banks it can't pay, said banks also owned by the state for being in debt. Yikes!
I think this is the reasonable view of it. Won't sell any papers this way.
The cajas made Greek banks look like exemplars of financial probity.
Is there a point at which the buck stops? They keep shuffling this debt around but it seems the state and the banks are increasingly unable to forgive late interest payments as they have their own creditors breathing down their neck. And how does this fiscal nightmare end with Roberto Soldado in the lilywhite...
Oh boy. And my bosses are bullish on Europe...
Moussa Sissoko. He's a good one. Has a premier league club ever reinvented itself in the January window like this before? That's 6 new players, I think, all from Ligue 1. They now have 10 French-based outfield players! I'm very intrigued as to how it works out for them.
The Spanish state, unlike the banks, is in pretty good shape compared to Greece and the others, with a quite sustainable debt load. But helping football clubs would be bad politically for a government doing the austerity thing. Bet they're looking to punt that question a long way if it lands on their table.
"Olympique de Newcastle"
Nickname(s) The French Revolution
Awesome.
Not enough thought was put into this. "St Jaimes' Park"? How about "Parc des Geordies".
This is going to work out fine.
English: Simpson, Williamson, Perch, Gosling, Taylor, Elliot, Taylor, Ameobi, Ameobi, Ranger, Ferguson, Tavernier, Dummett, Harper, Campbell
French: Cabaye, Sissoko, Cissé, Ben Arfa, Gouffran, Thauvin, Yanga-Mbiwa, Amalfitano, Haidara, Bigirimana, Marveaux, Tioté, Obertan, Debuchy, Abeid
Spanish: Coloccini, Gutiérrez, Xisco
Dutch: Krul, Anita
Italian: Santon (Who has a French sounding name)
Slovene: Vuckic
Is there a risk that Newcastle will have problems like QPR integrating all these new players? I think the players Newcastle got are better than the ones QPR got, but damn that's a lot of roster churn in the middle of the season.
All Fox has left is Champions League and World Cup, right?
I'm sure there will be some growing pains as the players develop an understanding, but as you point out they do have the considerable advantage of not being s**t.
They've got Europa League and A-League, too! Not enough to build a network around.
There's a strong chance that both Cisse and Bigirimana didn't encounter French until they began to go to school in Senegal and Burundi, respectfully.
Or that Jacques Tati made a film about them.
Back on this side of the pond, a very fine article on how Tijuana have embraced the ambiguities of the border.
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