That Chelsea Ball Boy Furore

I had to laugh when I saw this picture.

Eden Hazard of Chelsea FC - Spot The Ballboy

As for the ball boy. He wasn’t hurt – although he’d put many a Premiership footballer to shame the way he pretended he was. He was interfering with play, when he shouldn’t have been. Hazard didn’t actually try to kick him – he tried to kick the ball. And I wonder if Swansea’s magnanimity in drawing a line under the affair would have been as great if they’d have lost?

As I say, Hazard went for the ball, frustrated by the fact that a grotty little hoodie with a Saturday job was holding on to it in an attempt to influence the outcome of the game. And if Swansea support the ball boy then they are a part of this attempt at cheating.

I love how the papers skirt round the issue of “time-wasting”. Time wasting is something players do. Snotty little nonentities like Charlie Morgan “interfere with play” – just as someone who runs on to the pitch would do.

Swansea should sack the ball boy and not allow him into the ground again. But they won’t (particularly seeing as he’s the son of.a club director).

Morgan is enjoying the attention he’s getting out of the affair.

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