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Originally Posted by cashman
Must admit I thought it was strange that the ball boys did what they were supposed to till you went in front then after that they were playing statues and didn't move to return the ball at all. One of them even obstructed a player trying to retrieve the ball. Are you Cheatenage in disguise? Someone must be briefing them to cheat like that, surely after slagging Westley off for years you're not now descending to those sort of tactics? Come on Stanley you're better than that and you don't need these win at all costs tactics. Cheats never prosper in the long run.
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Is anything like that not up to the match officials to come down on hard?
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Not sure really. There's nothing I can think of in the FA rules which say you have to provide ball boys so I guess that what they do is not governed by the officials. It's more of an ethical thing. i.e. If they start off returning the ball they shouldn't just stop when their team go in front in order to waste time. I wouldn't think they've got their own heads together and decided to do this, it has surely come from someone within the club with authority. I've seen thousands of games but have never seen this type of behaviour before. If you are trying to get a lot more youngsters in on a generous season ticket deal that's fine, but if someone at the club is teaching youngsters at the club to cheat then that's not fine and someone needs to sort it out. I obviously don't know if it happens every game or if it was just a one off but it needs stamping out for obvious reasons. Just my opinion like.