by WTRoyal »
23 Apr 2007 10:19
Wycombe Royal Maguire It was definitely Thompson and I actually think it's quite funny.
Nothing to get wound up over.
It is funny, but in another match it could have serious consequences if it actually worked.
For example Chelsea v Man Utd. Chelsea are winning 1-0 as the match nears its conclusion. Chelsea need to win to move above Man Utd. Then Man Utd get awarded a penalty. As the player makes their run up one of the Chelsea players bursts a baloon and succeeds in putting the Man Utd player off their stride and they miss. Chelsea go on to win the title.
LOL at the thought of what Mourinho might say afterwards if that happened... "Manchester had every right to burst balloons if they wanted to, they chose not to. Anyway I didn't see the incident as it was not important to me but my team tell me that it wasn't a balloon, they say it was just chewing gum and that is OK with me, it's just part of the game"
IMHO though it was TOTALLY irresponsible action by Stelios or whoever it was and they should be handed a lifelong ban from the game. After all, what if, in these days of over-heightened security, people hadn't realised it was just a baloon bursting and had thought some kind of explosive device had gone off? Mass panic could have ensued, a stampede to get out of the stadium, people could have been injured in the rush or even killed...
...oh no, hang on though, it was only a balloon, people probably didn't even hear it burst. More interesting to me is the question raised by rob the royal as to why he had a balloon about his personals in the first place. My theory is that he had the balloon there as a kind of makeshift codpiece, sort of a testicle airbag if you will, in case of contact with the obviously ever-dangerous and vicious Stephen Hunt who had been rumoured to be out to injure opposition players by rendering them incapable of procreation, thereby also protecting Reading's future for generations to come by stopping potential opposition players at source...
