If the FA are going to adjudicate over this matter, which needs to include the activities of the ball boys 10 minutes leading up to the incident, they will need to appraise the part played by Swansea FC , the ball boys and the Ref as well as Eden Hazard. If you play back the action and are genuinely neutral then you must conclude that if there is to be any criticism/ punishment it must not be placed against Hazard alone!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...boy-Leon-Britton-Arsenal-Villa-Newcastle.html Penultimate paragraphs sum up everything I've been saying.
The ball boy to receive a telling off hazard to get his ban Swansea to be warned about the conduct of their staff Something like that. Cant see anything harsher on swansea and the ball boy and a standard ban for hazard. Though he is foreign so maybe burn down his home town? Something anti foreign like that perhaps?
I’ll go even further: this kid is an example of what is wrong with Britain. A generation of kids with no respect whatsoever for adults. No respect for professionals trying to do their job. He’s being treated like a hero by some and labelled a victim by others. What a weird world we live in. Durham 100% spot on here.
How many players waste time, dive about and play act? If anything the lad was merely imitating modern day footballers so this bellend who wrote the article should quite his day job rather sharpish based on this bullshit here. Also the lad is going to be a hero with Swansea fans, he in no way played any pat in them beating Chelsea but he will be remembered as part if this famous cup run for years to come. Nothing wrong with that at all. You will also find adults are to blame for today's youth, perhaps if todays adult generation knew how to raise their kids they wouldn't be so many issues. Their holier than thou attitude as well on many subjects is laughable. These are people raised in the 60's and 70's after all, carefree generations with little in the way of rule following. So if a ball boy wasting a few seconds is whats wrong with todays kids..... weve come a long ****ing way.
You know you're desperate whern you start quoting the odious (and rather thick) Durham. But this lad isn't a hero to most Swans fans. Quite the contrary in fact. The ballboy was well out of order and I've been one of his biggest critics on our board. But if Hazard had simply not got involved and let the little git do his time wasting thing (all of 6 seconds) then your captain (Lampard?) could have raised that with the referee and time would have been added on. Simple. Hazard had no choice? Oh please. That's as bad as saying this was a vicious assault on an innocent child. The fact both have apologised tells you both have recognised they were wrong and that should be the end of it.
Ah, good ol' Pat Nevin. Chelsea's answer to Paddy Crerand, Phil Thompson and Mike Summerbee Like UIR says - Hazard gets his ban, probably inflated by the FA a la Cantona, Rio, Suarez etc due to the media reaction and wanting to look 'strong', the ball boy goes back to work in McDonald's people move on. The media will only sensationalise it as long as everyone keeps reacting to sensationalism. Tho' interesting Nevin blames it all on footballers rolling around pretending to be injured. So it's actually all Suarez's fault after all...
I think you'll find a lot of Swans are not happy with the lad so no, he's never ging to be their hero.
I know that. I am pointing out that Nevin was just avoiding the question on MOTD for whatever reason. Not important but Yurilly claimed Nevin was some sort of geezer for having the cahonies to do this. I dont see how.
I suspect they are not to bothered but he will be a part of the tale for years to come one way or another and no doubt will be used to remind Chelsea fans over the coming years of what tooj place ( the win not the ballboy thing )
why would someone who stole their thunder of getting to their first major final in ****ing forever be their hero?
The boy and his father did not press charges. Even so the police have a duty to enforce the law regardless and have the power to prosecute the player if they believe there is a case to be answered, against the boy and the father's wishes if that be the case. The boy has reported he has no injury. The police had said last night there is no case and they will not prosecute. Both boy and player admit their respective poor behaviour and have settled their differences. The boy, it seems, is overage for the role of ballboy and it appears he was given the job purely down to his father's weight at the club. The possibility exists that there was some collusion with the boy and some one of responsibility at the club and they planned to waste time at some point. This may not be likely or provable but given the relationship between the boy and a shareholder as his father and that he was used despite being overage means the club merit investigation by the FA. Given what the boy had publicly tweeted before the game shows intent to break the rules beforehand. The FA have their own professional conduct standards and the player will have to answer to them. The player showed a lack of maturity and a certain amount of ignorance.
