Comments on: New angle allows us to circle back on, re-tell Eden Hazard’s ball boy “assault”

By: jacksprat57

jacksprat57 — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:54:30 +0000

The punk kid should’ve had his ribs staved in. As it is, the moment he bogarted the ball, he was a local hero.

By: sjm1717

sjm1717 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:53:03 +0000

Can we call this an occupational hazard of being a ball boy?

By: sjm1717

sjm1717 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:52:13 +0000

Hazard is the man

By: pmacd82

pmacd82 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:26:33 +0000

No, Hazard’s still an idiot

By: dws110

dws110 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:57:40 +0000

The poutrage is strong with this case. I like Daniel Taylor’s take in the Guardian: A silly footballer and a silly boy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/jan/24/eden-hazard-ballboy-chelsea-swansea

“The irony here is both delicious and dismaying: a Premier League footballer sent off for kicking a ballboy (deliberately or not) who seems a dab hand in the art of time-wasting and exaggerating injury and who almost certainly learned these tricks from – that’s right – watching the Premier League.”

By: mrhyperpants

mrhyperpants — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:55:06 +0000

I would of kicked the ball boy too. The ball boy was time wasting by not giving the ball back and lying on it.

Hazard shouldn’t of kicked him. But the ball boy at the age of 17 should also know better. The ball boy also stated on twitter before the game he was gonna do things like this.

Know doubt hazzard will get a big fine and a lengthy ban for this, but I think the ball boy should be fined as well. Both were in the wrong at the end of the day.

By: player169

player169 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:19:09 +0000

Hmm, the media overreacting? That never happens. Pretty weak apology if that was what you were attempting to do.

I think the red card was punishment enough. Do you fine suspend the NFL player for tackling the streaker who is interfering in the game?…probably not. The ball boy was interfering with play on behalf of his home team and he deserved to be kicked…even if that wasn’t the intent.

You are way off on your assessment that if it was a kick, it would be a defining moment in his career. You may view the world through P.C. glasses, but not the average fan…

By: archlobster

archlobster — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:09:15 +0000

I found everyone’s outrage hilarious. That camera angle was shown live, and had pundits and writers bothered to look before condemning so sternly they would have seen it. Right now the media’s excessive barrage looks Teo-esque in its coverage.

Ridiculous stuff. Hazard could have mauled a puppy and have generated less outrage. This wasn’t De Jong’s flyin kick in the WC2010 final.

By: bootla

bootla — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:48:42 +0000

Maybe the reason he apologized is that the minute something like this blows up in all forms of media, the first reaction is a forced apology. We see atheletes issue an apology every time they do something that comes across as negative to some party via TV/Video/Social. Do you believe they are heartfelt?

What do you think the reaction would have been if he just said, “Yeah i kicked him, so what?”

By: arjanroghanchi

arjanroghanchi — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:21:52 +0000

pettifogging? really?