Hazard Ball Boy Incident


Steve McQueen
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Saw it repeated a few times now on the tv. and my view is the same as my first thoughts, what the he'll is he doing, firstly wrestling with the ballboy and secondly puting the boot into him.

As explained by the guys in the studio, it is against the rules and he was correctly sent off.

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Was it Killie. (when Gus McPherson was manager) or Billy Reid at Hamilton that used to withdraw the ballboys altogether to waste time if they were ahead?

Nilly Reid at Hamilton. They also used to have spare balls on the side opp the main stand and he took them in when they were leading to slow the game down.

Hazard was an idiot, he actually pushed the ballboy and does IMO make contact with him in the kick.

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I think the ball boy was at it , but that's for the ref to sort out.

Exactly, but he was nowhere to be seen until the red card was produced.

Maybe a blast on the whistle earlier could have stopped the players actions.

As Ancient often says, it wouldn't have happened if Tiny Wharton had been the referee!!

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Hazard was daft and deserves to be sent off for that reason, but jeez, that ballboy was milking it. How are we ever going to stop players diving and playacting when even the bloody ballboys are doing it. Maybe tomorrow we'll see a photo of that kid's bruised ribs, but I doubt it.

Bruised ego apparently.

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Hazard was daft and deserves to be sent off for that reason, but jeez, that ballboy was milking it. How are we ever going to stop players diving and playacting when even the bloody ballboys are doing it. Maybe tomorrow we'll see a photo of that kid's bruised ribs, but I doubt it.

Where do you think the ball boy learned it? Think if we sort the players out then young people won't copy them. Pretty sure players aren't copying ball boys like you infer.

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Exactly, but he was nowhere to be seen until the red card was produced.

Maybe a blast on the whistle earlier could have stopped the players actions.

As Ancient often says, it wouldn't have happened if Tiny Wharton had been the referee!!

Doesn't matter who did what really its not right to boot anyone. Hazard should have behaved like an adult.

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Are we really saying Hazard should get locked up for doing that because he would have if it was done on the street? Really? Well what about all the players who deliberately kick another player? Hazard got sent off in accordance with Law 12 Decision 1 that covers spectators, officials and players - no differentiation made.

Decision 1

A player who commits a cautionable or sending off offence, either on or off the field of play, whether directed towards an opponent, a team mate, the referee, an assistant referee or any other person, is disciplined according to the nature of the offence committed.

So Hazard kicked someone and in accordance with the above he was sent off.

Police charge Hazard then they will have to charge any player sent off for the same offence?

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Exactly, but he was nowhere to be seen until the red card was produced.

Maybe a blast on the whistle earlier could have stopped the players actions.

As Ancient often says, it wouldn't have happened if Tiny Wharton had been the referee!!

So if the 4th Official reported it to the ref how did the 4th Official see it? - he was 50yds away. Did he watch the video replay? is he allowed to use a video replay to help inform the referee about an incident? I thought he wasn't - else why is video evidence not used during a game for all the other c**p that goes on?

BTW - in my yoof I used to socialise with Tiny Wharton's twin daughters - they were pretty quiet and gentle souls - unlike their old man.

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Are we really saying Hazard should get locked up for doing that because he would have if it was done on the street? Really? Well what about all the players who deliberately kick another player? Hazard got sent off in accordance with Law 12 Decision 1 that covers spectators, officials and players - no differentiation made.

Decision 1

A player who commits a cautionable or sending off offence, either on or off the field of play, whether directed towards an opponent, a team mate, the referee, an assistant referee or any other person, is disciplined according to the nature of the offence committed.

So Hazard kicked someone and in accordance with the above he was sent off.

Police charge Hazard then they will have to charge any player sent off for the same offence?

A word in his lug from the old Bill should suffice.

Let the disciplinary people deal with it.

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Are we really saying Hazard should get locked up for doing that because he would have if it was done on the street? Really? Well what about all the players who deliberately kick another player? Hazard got sent off in accordance with Law 12 Decision 1 that covers spectators, officials and players - no differentiation made.

Decision 1

A player who commits a cautionable or sending off offence, either on or off the field of play, whether directed towards an opponent, a team mate, the referee, an assistant referee or any other person, is disciplined according to the nature of the offence committed.

So Hazard kicked someone and in accordance with the above he was sent off.

Police charge Hazard then they will have to charge any player sent off for the same offence?

It doesn't really matter what laws Fifa have implemented, they are trumped by the law of the land. These are enforced by a totally different entity who don't give a shit what Fifa think. Duncan Ferguson headbutt is a perfect example. In saying that I certainly don't think he should be charged by anyone other than the footballing authorities.

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So if the 4th Official reported it to the ref how did the 4th Official see it? - he was 50yds away. Did he watch the video replay? is he allowed to use a video replay to help inform the referee about an incident? I thought he wasn't - else why is video evidence not used during a game for all the other c**p that goes on?

BTW - in my yoof I used to socialise with Tiny Wharton's twin daughters - they were pretty quiet and gentle souls - unlike their old man.

Was it the 4th Official that reported the incident?

Are you saying the 4th official's eye sight is suspect at a distance of 50yds.

If you know this to be fact, I suggest you bring this to the attention of the football authorities.

However,I would have thought an eyesight test was one of the first things needed to be a referee.

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Well the ballboy was timewasting and taking the piss, with his home team ahead 2-0 he had the motive for that.

He deliberately resisted Hazard's first two or three reasonable attempts to get the ball; them Hazard lost the plot and tried to kick it out from under him.

The ballboy then feigned injury in a way which made Drogba and Suarez look bulletproof. There is no way he got hurt from that wee toepoke Hazard made.

That wee chunt got an opposing footballer sent off by his provacative actions. Ballboys are meant to be honest and return the baw quick, home or away, win or lose.

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You can just hear Hazard saying 'get aff the f****n' ball ya wee fud' and then giving him a wee prod in the ribs to get him moving - because actually that was what Hazard did - it wasn't a bloody great kick - it was a prod - and a fairly gentle one at that. Doesn't mean he wasn't stupid doing it.

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