Four years ago we enjoyed one of the most important title races in years. United and Liverpool were going head to head, with United looking to equal Liverpool’s record of 18 titles, whilst Liverpool were trying to put themselves two clear of United.
Ahead of their game against Stoke City, Rafael Benitez famously brought a sheet of ‘facts’ about manager Sir Alex Ferguson. You can only imagine how pleased this will have made our manager at the time. Benitez had an important game to prepare for and instead he was obsessing over our manager. Benitez was rattling off dates, decisions made by referees, comments made by Ferguson, complaints about United’s ‘easier’ fixtures, and used the word “fact” repeatedly.
I’ve often wondered since what must have been going through Benitez’s head when he decided to dedicate his pre-match press conference to Ferguson and United. He must have honestly thought that showing up with his sheet of ‘facts’ was a good idea, and that it wouldn’t make him look like a raving lunatic.
“Maybe they are nervous because we are at the top of the table,” he said. Over the next two months, Liverpool picked up just 10 points from a possible 21 and United were away. Rafa took his eye off the ball and United went on to equal Liverpool’s record of 18 titles. “18 times and that’s a fact,” Old Trafford sung, before winning our 19th title two years later.
Benitez was sacked a year later when they finished 7th in the league, 33 points off top spot, and was paid off with £6m. He then went to Inter Milan and was sacked a few months in to the job after turning the team that had just won the Treble a few months earlier in to the 6th best side in Italy.
Whilst Liverpool fans have repeatedly called for him to return, much to our disappointment, he stayed away from the Premier League, and from work all together in fact. Two years after being sacked by Inter, Benitez got a phone call from Roman Abramovich, asking him to replace Roberto Di Matteo at Chelsea.
Abramovich played perfectly in to United’s hands with the baffling decision of appointing Benitez. Firstly, what did Abramovich hope to get out of the players when knowing that their latest manager, one of a very long line they’ve played under in the past 10 years, was only there until the end of the season? We already know that several Chelsea players have an issue with authority, so did Abramovich seriously expect those players to slog their guts out for another manager they that knew would be disappearing in a few months?
Secondly, the fans despise him, and rightly so. The rivalry was fierce between Chelsea and Liverpool in the 2000s, with them regularly being drawn against each other in the Champions League. Liverpool fans sang about their history whilst Chelsea fans sang of their recent success.
“We don’t need to give away stupid plastic flags to our fans to wave,” Benitez said ahead of one of their Champions League games in 2007. “Our supporters are always there with their hearts and that is all we need. Its the passion of the fans that helps us to win matches, not flags. Chelsea fans lack passion.”
Some sections of the press have defended Benitez for these comments, claiming that managers have to fight for their current team, and that Chelsea fans should understand that. I can’t agree though. If managers taking swipes at opposition fans was a regular occurrence, then maybe Benitez’s comments could be explained, but when does that ever happen? There have been plenty of mind games and arguments between managers in the past, but Mourinho and Wenger never singled out our fans (even with our fans spending years chanting about Wenger being a paedophile). Ferguson hates Liverpool with a passion but has never criticised their support (despite all the shit throwing, ambulance ambushing, Munich mocking and the like). When Abramovich appointed a manager who the fans hate, did he seriously think they would allow it to be water under the bridge and support him regardless?
Thirdly, Benitez just isn’t that good. With the likes of Mata, Oscar, Hazard and now Ba, Chelsea could be a real threat. But Benitez loves a bit of rotation and will drop his best players even when there’s not another league game for ten days or more. That’s just what he does. Benitez last (and only) real success was with Valencia and that was almost 10 years ago. He won the Champions League in 2005 but it wasn’t with a team he created, and Liverpool had to totally sacrifice competing in the league to achieve it, finishing 5th that season. Football management seems to be one of the few careers where failing sees you rewarded with a new job, and thankfully, one of our supposed title rivals decided to give one to him
Whilst it was clear Di Matteo still had some learning to do, you have got to applaud a manager who takes charge of a team in decline with just a few months of the season remaining and manages to win the European Cup and FA Cup. Whilst he was going through a rocky patch this season, Chelsea were still only four points behind United and serious title challengers. After two months of Benitez, that gap has grown to eleven points.
You would think then, after going from embarrassment to embarrassment, Benitez might want to keep a low profile and stay under Ferguson’s radar. Apparently not. Benitez was asked about Ferguson’s recent criticism of the linesman who didn’t flag for a blatant penalty for Rooney at the weekend and happily gave his thoughts.
“Maybe now a lot of people are seeing the same things,” Benitez said yesterday. “I will not talk too much about that because it’s obvious. It’s a question for the FA what they do about it. What I said at that time was what I thought and what I’m seeing now is similar. It depends on the FA. I don’t know what they will do.”
Anyone sensible, with at least half a brain, would have been able to work out that this journo was looking to stir. A wry smile followed by “What Ferguson does is none of my business” would have done the trick. Instead, Benitez chooses to refer back to his mental breakdown in 2009 as if there was any validity to what he said and as if it didn’t make him a laughing stock.
Ferguson wasn’t the only person Benitez took a swipe at, with him losing the plot when confronted with what his former player, Marco Materazzi, had to say about him.
“He is not my ideal coach,” he said. “If I was a club president, I’d never employ him. A great boss like Marcello Lippi or Mourinho knows how to get their demands across to a dressing room. Whereas Benítez, well he wanted to put them all in writing, 10 or 12 rules, like the Highway Code or being at school. At Inter’s training centre there were photos on the wall of all the most successful past coaches, from Helenio Herrera to Roberto Mancini and Mourinho. Benítez had the ones of José taken down. With that gesture, he showed his character: that of a weak person.”
Benitez was furious about this and instead of banging on about ‘facts’, he decided to repeatedly call Materazzi a liar.
“He’s lying,” he said. “He’s lying. He’s lying, just lying. Everything he has said is a lie. Simple. It’s all a lie. Nobody knew Mourinho was leaving after the European Cup final in 2010 and no one knew the Inter position would be available. Nobody knew I was going to Inter, even me. So it’s a lie. I went there and wanted to be professional and to respect people.”
The only sad thing about this is that Benitez will probably be gone at the end of the season, meaning the remaining few months are unlikely to produce a full scale melt down. However, if Ferguson gets to work stirring the pot and Chelsea can’t find anyone daft enough to take the job off him, we might get to enjoy plenty more rants like these.
Viva la Rafalution!
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You know, I can definitely believe he had the pictures of Mourinho taken down. When Chelsea sacked Mourinho, Benitez was the only manager not to offer a public word of comfort. Even Wenger did. Goes to show what a sad pathetic fat waste of breath he is.
However, it’s great to have him back in the Premiership. We needed the laughs.
I saw the interview last night. Welcome home Rafa…. God how we missed ya HA!
Complete psycho!
No, really!
But honestly. No need to worry about Chelsea for the rest of this season! HA (tongue in cheek)
Fat Rafa is farting again!!!great title, huh;)
Whenever twat Rafa finds himself under tremendous pressure, he simply attacks our manager.obviously after a couple of bad results against the like of Southampton and Swan city at home, he is officially now the most hated guy among the Chelsea fans.And as we all realize the fact that tonight’s replay against Swansea will be their last chance for securing one trophy this season, so its incredibly crucial for this cunt to come out with his secret weapon, and that is by probing Fergie unto the spotlight, thus he could avoid the frustration of the local fans and sissy Abramovich.I congratulate him for his attempt, but I also can’t wait for Fergie’s response.of course it will get more delicious when they lose the chance of securing a place in the final league cup, can’t wait;)
Seems like this season would be an ideal time for Chelsea to have a manager who’s going to be there in the long term – someone like Villas Boas. They’re out of Europe and probably aiming for third, yet they’re stuck with a manager who won’t be there long term. This could be a transitional season for them but it’s a mess. Not that I’m complaining – I’m still hoping they’ll finish out of the top 4.
It’s interesting how much of a joke Benitez seems to everyone. He doesn’t help himself, or maybe he just can’t play the game – Redknapp plays it well and is seen as a good manager despite winning one trophy. Even Allardyce had the gumption to say that only Fergie and Wenger have better CVs than himself and Benitez “maybe” has. Two La Ligas & two European trophies puts you about level with Big Sam.
He’s cracking up,
He’s cracking up,
He’s cracking…
…Rafa’s cracking up!!
(and dats a fahct!)
“Two La Ligas & two European trophies puts you about level with Big Sam”? Have I been asleep whilst Allardyce has been winning multiple trophies.
“He’s lying,” he said. “He’s lying. He’s lying, just lying. Everything he has said is a lie. Simple. It’s all a lie”
I thought I heard that before….if not mistaken from a 6 years old kid when he was accused of something.
Typical Rafa but this won’t help him out of the grasp of the chelsea fans. They will frustrate him out
Fergie is also cracking with his comment about other clubs and managers. I see no difference in attitude between Fergie and Benitez.
A bit off topic, any update on Zaha transfer today?
K.R.A.C
Cracking up????
He’s just saying what the rest of the league and supporters have thought for years….
@Pal
The difference is quite clearly outlined in the article. Are you dense?
When has Fergie ever mentioned other clubs’ fans?
only point here is that it’s ok for Di Matteo take someone elses team to the CL final and as a result, finish outside of the top 4, but its not ok for Benitez to do it?
Interesting thought process..
Pal is a bit like Rafa……not worth their breath. They are a waste of space and waste of time !!!
@Pal
When you make a point, you should prove its honesty.thus you are not honest with your claim!
Ah, so winning the Champion’s League doesn’t count as success because he did it withsomeone else’s team, but you have to applaud di Matteo for doing the same thing? Liverpool regularly beat you under Rafa. That 1-4 at your place must have really hurt. Fergie cracks up when you draw or lose – FACT!
you lot don’t do your fellow supporters any favors….
it’s fine if you don’t like rafa, if you think he’s incompetent despite what he’s won in his career, perfectly fine to think he went over the line with the (misquoted) chelsea flag comment….
but i genuinely can’t understand why even united fans can’t admit what he was getting at with the whole facts presser.
the whole crux of that was that ferguson gets away with things that other managers do not, from both the media and the FA.
that was in 2009….and here we sit in 2012/2013 and the same things are happening:
- ferguson made a far worse statement about a club being small by calling newcastle a “wee club in the northeast”….hardly a peep was made of that anywhere and that was downright derisory (and with intent to be)
- ferguson comes out with these comments about the linesman and despite the fact that he’s right, it contravenes the rules that the FA have in place….yet all they have done is “sought his counsel” on the matter…..this, after hitting allardyce up with a charge and fine for basically the same thing, mere days earlier. and i understand that there is time still for the FA to be consistent, with charging, but they have already hesitated in a way they didnt do with fat sam a week prior, or any other manager that i can think of in the recent past.
yeah the journo was looking to stir – which ones dont? – but the *fact* remains that if the FA were consistent there would be no angle to start something. if they charged him in the same manner as they did allardyce, a journo couldnt go back and ask about rafa’s facts becuse they wouldnt apply.
the ONLY reaon people are still talking about that is because the same things are still happening, 3-4 years after rafa pointed it out (and for many years prior to that too)
Speaking of ‘cracking up’, I think the lad in white coats may need to come for me if I see another story implying De Gea is out.
There are at least 4 competing story lines:
1. Fergie thinks he will never make it. (evidence…. none)
2. That De Gea is unhappy (evidence…. his rumored Girl friend is not leaving Madrid and his lack of english)
3. That both Real Madrid and Barca want him (evidence…. none, but we always get stories like this when we are about to play RM or Barca so I feel this is just typical Champions League high jinx)
4. We have been linked with at least 5 keepers this week alone (evidence…. none)
If there is any truth Let me suggest that everyone is barking up the wrong poll. Much more likely that Lindegaard will never make it and fergie wants a better No2, who really will push De Gea to new heights.
Viva la rafaloution! Hahaha classic!
@Pal
I don’t post here much, just enjoy reading the comments. Sometimes posts just like yours scream for reaction and always the reaction comes.
Could you clarify better your point? Otherwise you are doomed for some heavy banter.
‘He won the Champions League in 2005 but it wasn’t with a team he created, and Liverpool had to totally sacrifice competing in the league to achieve it, finishing 5th that season…
Whilst it was clear Di Matteo still had some learning to do, you have got to applaud a manager who takes charge of a team in decline with just a few months of the season remaining and manages to win the European Cup and FA Cup.’
Bit of a contradiction there.
Ha. This fat cunt is a fucking clown and his meltdown prior to the Stoke game was comedy gold. Up there with Keegan.
Pal – Whic managers has Fergie been slagging? Don’t recall really. I can assure you Fergie is NOT cracking up.
Gordon Banks tells the Gaz where he can stuff it !
Banks backs David De Gea and says Neville’s wrong! HA
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-united-england-world-cup-1551673
Just catching up on all the DDG palavar.
I cant belive gary said some of the stuff i’m reading.
Really, the lads looked at DDG in disgust? They’d give him a telling off will they?
Well they would do better to look at themselves and the shoddy defending thats been on show this season.
I hope to fuck he leaves, maybe we are due a bite in the ass. Cant believe Gary. Of all people. Having a go like that. I can understand him being pissed about points dropped but talking that horse shit is just plain wrong. Tv cameras, flashing lights and studios must have am effect.
Damn did someone die ?
A rentboy kicking a ballboy! You couldn’t make it up! Hahahahaha. Hilarious!
Going by the Cantona ruling, Hazard should get an 8 month ban. Yeah right…
Chris foy is a fucking clown of a ref. This is funny as fuck tho.
H is only a Fat Spanish Waiter.
Yea, probably it is Fergie’s fault Swansea dumped them tonight!!
…As for Hazard, it looks like Chelsea FC and him deserve each other.
Cant wait to hear what f.s.w has to say. Hopefully he has a Wee sheet with all the points of how the refs and linesmen and ballboys consipired with Sir Alex to lose.
Maybe Sir Alex and FA telepathically influence the ball boy and like X men doctor, they accessed the mind of hazard and made him kick the ball boy in his ribs
@belfast red. Don’t hold your breath! Old farts at the FA usually get out of their way only when they have to punish United ‘s players or Fergie.
They’ll find a lame excuse, and give Hazard the normal 3 match ban for the red card!
Hans if it is violent conduct and it was. It has to be more than 3 matches. But like you just said its a cert he gets just a 3 match ban.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGtYSmTDDdY
of course that ballboy was acting stupid by keeping the ball, and I didn’t saw the game, but kicking a ballboy, no matter are yo ureaching the ball or not, is another thing.
in this video you clearly can see how hazard kicks him on the ribs
Chelsea boss is cracking up
Chelsea striker is cracking ribs
I can’t wait for all of the “Hazardous” headlines tomorrow
@ Costas
Fucking spot on. The only similar incident the FA can use as a yardstick involved United and Eric.The Russian mafia and that bitter cunt Bernstein will make sure Hazard gets off with next to fuck all.
The ballboy is a member of the public not another player, hopefully the rentboy cunt will be rightly
charged with common assault. No class club,with no class players, no class fans, a no class manager, and a no class owner. Twats the lot of em.
@WeAreUnited, I have been watching football for quit a long time, and time wasting by ball-boys is a regular occurrence in stadiums around the world. That’s wpart of the home advantage. It is up to the ref to judge how much time should be added at the end of the match.
If you or me kicked somebody like that on a street, we’d be done for GBH . Police should have nicked Hazard there and then! That would have taught him and thugs like him a proper lesson.
I wonder if he already regrets becoming a rent boy!
Give Hazard a medal, not a ban. The Eric Cantona award for services to
As much as I hate Chelski the ball boy is little scrote who deserved a kicking- shame he didn’t actually get one . The kid is a moron who planned on wasting time if needed for Swansea before the match; the twat actually posted this on his twitter account beforehand. I don’t use twitter myself (can’t abide the nonsense myself) but several online newspapers have published what he supposedly said. Those who use twitter can apparently verify on @CHARLIEMORGAN. On the video of the incident, the ball-boy walked extremely slowly, then he supposedly “fell” on top of the ball and kept lying there. Hazard kicked the BALL which popped out on the other side. the Ball boy was clearly overacting, doing a dying swan act. The little cunt.
Typo: I meant to write
“Give Hazard a medal, not a ban. The Eric Cantona award for services to just rewards”
I love how the ABU press are falling over themselves to exonerate Hazard. Do me a fucking favour, if a United player deliberately kicked a ball boy in the ribs, or even kicked the ball from underneath him, these same cunts in the media would be calling for assault charges.
Rio accidentally kicked somebody and they wanted his blood! Rooney swore into a camera and was blamed for “the breakdown in society!”. You couldn’t make this ABU shit up. Anybody But United. I’ve read City supporters say ABC but thats just an easy to remember anagram for thicko cunts with an inferiority complex.
No other team in England is singled out like we are. If Suarez was a United player he wouldn’t have been cheered on as player of the year in DECEMBER. Its a joke. If the FA proceed to chase Fergie for his words, but leave Hazard to serve the usual ban with stepping in, will anybody paying attention be surprised?
We all know a United player doing the same thing as Hazard would be on the front pages, labelled as all that is wrong with “broken Britain”. Instead, since its Chelski, they are suggesting the ball boy made a meal of being kicked in his ribs.
Perhaps its because Abramovich and his mates have an iron fist up the arse of various British media outlets? Probably… but even though most journos are soulless cunts with zero morality, you gotta admit the ABU punters who happily buy into their bullshit ain’t too far off either
Fucking joke. How can kicking a ball boy in his ribs result in nothing more than a normal red card? I can already hear all the mindless bastards in the morning saying this should be put to bed. Yeah, till somebody in a United shirt does it and the Sun rises in the west. You easily-led cunt.
No fucking way Rooney kicks a ball boy and the whole incident is put to bed on the same night. He’d be facing serious FA charges and any journo reading this knows it. The only consolation is the champions of Europe were knocked out. Haha. Well done Swansea. At least theres some justice in the world.
I didn’t watch their match im only catching the news now. Nothing surprises me any more.
Thats a new one, the ball boy (who has school in the morning) deserved to be kicked by the big bloke wearing studs.
How about Hazard deserved to be sent back to England in a ambulance?
You don’t kick a child out of frustration, you lot are fucking cowards.
*acronym
*Welsh ambulance
@Mr C
It happens at every ground, even at Stamford Bridge. Its ultimately an unwritten part of a ball kids job, if the home teams winning slow the game down and if they are losing speed it up ad that’s what was happening.
Sure that’s frustrating if you are being held up but need to score like Chelsea did but Hazard let his frustration get the better of him, First by the nudge that knocked the ball kid to the floor (he may have made a meal of it to waste further seconds ) and then by kicking him. Based on other actions of assault we have seen at Football games that weren’t on fellow players (Cantona and Di Canio jump to mind) he shouldn’t play again for the rest of the season. And using Bartons assault n a fellow player he should be getting 8 games at a minimum as this is much worse.
@UTID
and another example is Rio getting throwed with a coin and bleed in a game, guess who is blamed?
Rio for celebrating infront of the United supporters hahaha.
@hans
no I totally agree with you mate, what Hazard did is a big NO. The ballboy did what he did and it didn’t help his situation, but like you said, it’s known that they play time for the homeside.
For example, in the Tottenham game when the tottehnwho fans throwed Evra with snowballs, and evra only laughed, is a good example how players should realise that it’s a part of the game.
It’s another thing if the supporters attacks you and you defend yourself, even though I have seen situations where the one who is attacked gets a red card haha
anyway. I agree mate! Hazard should get a long ban.
btw. someone posted a funny comment regarding Torres:
QUOTE
” hehe
“Torres would of missed kicking that ballboy
Fat Spanish Waiter is really sent undercover by Loserpool to fuck up the rent boyz.
Jonny @ 23.58, that was hillarious. nice.
This would make Fergie’s press conference interesting, can’s wait;)
I can’t believe some of the nonsense I read on here. The ball-boy didn’t get a kicking, more’s the pity for that. Hazard kicked the ball from under the little twat who was deliberately lying on top of it and by feigning some sort of fall or injury to waste time. Just look at the video footage. The attention seeking cunt even boasted on twitter about his time-wasting skills BEFORE the match so that folks could check out his antics. For the sake of a good story, or because they hate Chelsea, people are overlooking the ball boys provocative antics and dumping on Hazard.
No wonder the country is overrun with bed-wetting yobbos.
As for Eric ‘Dieu’ Cantona booting that disgusting fascist at Palace that was one of his finest moments, ban or no ban.
Now that a few hours have passed, I’d say the Hazard incident has plenty of guilty parties. One of the few times I actually agree with the FSW. First and foremost, Hazard has overreacted. When something like that happens, just report it to the ref and ask for another ball ffs.
The ball boy isn’t in the clear either. I am not going to claim he feigned injury since none of us know how much contact was actually made. But he was acting like a right dick. According to online reports, this is what he said on twitter ahead of the game: “The king of all ball boys is back making his final appearance #needed #for #timewasting”. If that’s true, then it would be unfair to pin all the blame on Hazard. The ball boy and even Swansea have some answering to do as well.
We’ll see what the FA makes of it. The United fan in me wants to see them finally apply the same set of rules for another team like they do for us. But it won’t happen. Carragher once got into a fight with a fan. Bellamy slapped a United fan. Alan Smith once threw a bottle towards the crowd. None of them got even a small fraction of Eric’s ban. Hazard will probably get a 4-8 game ban.
P.S. Finally, I had to laugh at Ashely Williams condemning the incident. He’s to talk!
@Mr.C
Excuse me!but the way you are about to justify Hazard’s antic is plain idiocy?!obviously Mr.Hazard was in rush of time and the dumbass didn’t care where the ball or the boy’s rib were lying.this is not just a plain justification, you can see that by yourself, the intensity of the kick and the agility of his limb, you can’t just kick a ball with such force while its so intimately in contact with someone’s chest.
So please don’t act like a moralist.the behavior of Hazard was plain wrong no matter how the boy deliberately trying to keep the ball.its a matter of maturity how you behave in those situation and your Haphazard player was not mature enough!that is all’ admit it.
@Andromeda
Moralist? Look up the word before you misuse it. I mean, check out your own comments.
“the behavior of Hazard was plain wrong no matter how the boy deliberately trying to keep the ball”
That’s moralising.
If the little attention seeking scrote hadn’t been lying on the ball, trying to time-waste on behalf of his club, he wouldn’t have got in the way. He didn’t get a kicking either as has been indicated on here by some. Pity he didn’t. Another gobby yob playing the victim and the press selling copy.
@Mr. C
You say
Moralist? Look up the word before you misuse it. I mean, check out your own comments
I am not about to misuse it, look up your previous comment.you are trying to justify and rectify Hazard antic by making your own scenario, while there ample empirical evidence for him to be guilty of such act, in that way you are making your own theory by yourself”that is plain medieval I am afraid”
And when I say”the behavior of Hazard was plain wrong no matter how the boy deliberately trying to keep the ball”
The thing I want to explain here is, football players should be mature enough to handle any emotional reaction from the opposition fans, we learned that from our past mistakes, and now its entering our genes and tradition.At white heart lane, a stupid fan has thrown snowball on Evra, but the lad responded with a laughter on his face, that should be the mentality.
Then you say:
“If the little attention seeking scrote hadn’t been lying on the ball, trying to time-waste on behalf of his club, he wouldn’t have got in the way. He didn’t get a kicking either as has been indicated on here by some. Pity he didn’t. Another gobby yob playing the victim and the press selling copy.
“If the little attention seeking scrote hadn’t been lying on the ball, trying to time-waste on behalf of his club, he wouldn’t have got in the way. He didn’t get a kicking either as has been indicated on here by some. Pity he didn’t. Another gobby yob playing the victim and the press selling copy.
Now that is another ruthless attempt from you.BTW don’t worry I am sure he won’t get the proper punishment he deserves.
Since Hazard has joined Chelsea, they have lost Community Shield to City, went out of Champions League, lost UEFA Super Cup to Atletico Madrid, Lost Club World Cup, are 11 points behind United and now they are out of Capital one cup.
The twat that’s hazard is a plain hazard to his club and again I don’t care how people see it or how the ball boy has or ahould have behaved the reaction from mr hazard a professional football sets a trend more so than the ball boys attitude and should rightly be dealt with by the FA.
Cantona got a lengthy ban and so should he
Profession footballer*
Surely the most appropriate punishment would be for Hazard to be made to lie face down in the centre circle at Stamford Bridge at half time, then let the ball boy’s Dad come onto the pitch and give Hazard a good kick in the ribs.
Then Benitez has to appear in full waiter’s uniform, and offer the Dad a refreshing iced drink from a tray.
I know the ball boy was being an idiot & shouldn’t have fallen on the ball, but can’t believe some are trying to defend Hazard. Sorry but when he kicked the ball from under the ball boy there is no way he could avoid making some contact with the kid & so he fully deserved his red card & deserves a long ban.
Another thing that annoyed me from the sky picture is that immediately after the incident the pictures showed Hazard & the Chelsea players laughing about it, but the red card that followed soon wiped the smiles off their faces.
@Mr C
And if Hazard hadn’t pushed him in the first place he wouldn’t have been lying on the ball either. He was time wasting which all the ball kids do when their team needs them too. This includes Chelsea, its a tactic just as Everton removing all the spare balls against us a few seasons ago to waste time was a tactic, or Stoke giving the ball kids towels so the stoke players could dry the ball before throw ins or city changing the playing dimensions is a tactic of their pitch by moving the ad boards to prevent log throws is a tactic or even the the thing united do of changing how much water is put on the pitch before the game and at half time is a tactic.
Big brain small mind? I love him here =)
@MR C aka DAD OF THE YEAR
So if that was your 15 year old son in the Stadium, you’re telling me you’d stand up for Hazards right to push him over and kick him? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Looking back at some of the earlier comments on this thread there was one really deluded post from KIT that had me amused. I’m sure he is a Liverpool fan as the majority of Chelsea fans can’t stand Rafa & so wouldn’t stick up for him,. But amongst his deluded comments he’s moaning about SAF calling Newcastle a wee club, umm how is what SAF said about Newcastle any different to when Rafa called Everton a small club when he was Liverpool manager ?
Haha Rafa
@United Till I Die – Are you a social worker or something? The ball boy ain’t some little kid. He’s a 17 y/o youth. In the UK he’s old enough to join the army, marry, drive a car and be charged with crimes as an adult.
In less than an year’s time he’ll be old enough to vote.
The little self-centred yob thought it was good laugh to piss about during the game and boasted about doing so beforehand. In the event it didn’t turn out to a big a laugh as he thought it would be. Tough shit.Let that be a lesson to him and his ilk the next time they fancy ‘having a laugh’ at other people’s expense.
@ Manc Harvin
Rafa in full waiter’s uniform…..Hilarious
Think there are alot of similarities between himself and manuel from good oul Faulty Towers,( sorry Manuel!) both very entertaining in their own funny little way
@Mr C – im not far off. And nobody knew he was 17 when he was kicked, especially the bloke kicking him. I don’t disagree he was taking the piss, course he was, but players don’t kick referees or linesmans when they take the piss, and supporters don’t advocate kicking them either, so the fact that so many are suddenly okay with a ball boy being kicked – the easiest target in the whole fucking ground – over a bit of time wasting? nah thats fucking cowardly mate I can’t describe it any other way. You wanna be the hard man kick the REF. People would call that stupid, but kicking the ball boy is smart? What kinda degenerate, fucked up mentality is that?
Cantona kicked a man like it was legal, but I don’t think there is a ball boy in the land that would’ve earned any sort of kick from him back in the day. Do you? Hazard is a fucking coward mate. End of.
*im not far off it.
*social worker