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Chelsea, Hazard, BallBoy, Out of control

Chelsea once again made the headlines for all the wrong reasons this week. Eden  Hazard was the latest player to drag the clubs name through the dirt. The Belgium star kicked a ballboy who refused to return the ball  quickly back to the player in the Capital One Cup semi final match. Now we know this ballboy was in fact 17 years-old and what he is doing as a ballboy is a different story. They are supposed to retrieve the ball as fast as possible to the players. This one let it slide by him and took his time, fell on it and that’s when the incident occurred. After a bit of shoving Hazard kick the ballboy and ball from under him and ran off to re-start the match. It doesn’t matter what he wrote on Twitter about time wasting beforehand it was an empty tweet from a teen. The real matter is that a professional footballer, a role model an adult kicked a person on national TV. If this happened on the street he would have been arrested simple as that. Some people have

QPR: Can they stay up?

   QPR will once again roll the dice this transfer window and gamble for their Premier League survival. Tony Fernandes has splashed the cash before but on players that were coming to the end of their careers and some say looking for their last big pay day out of the naive chairman. He will have to dip into those deep pockets again.  With Harry Redknapp in charge a man known for his wheeling and dealing in the transfer market, QPR must gamble to secure Premier League survival. The wage bill at Loftus Road is one of the highest in England. The likes of Cesar, Bosingwa, Park, Granero, SWP, Remy and of course Barton all on big wages if Rangers do go down and miss the new big money TV deal and it will be a massive blow to the club.  QPR must take the risk to stay in the league Harry Redknapp has improved the attitude of QPR in recent weeks. They have looked more like a team, defending much better and even picked up away wins. They are in fact unbeaten in 2013.  They have been

New picks for the season

Some updated picks for the season.  Premier League  Top 4 1. Manchester United 2. Manchester City  3. Chelsea 4. Tottenham  Relegation Aston Villa Wigan  Reading  Championship  Promotion  Cardiff City  Leicester City  Crystal Palace Relegation Bristol City  Sheffield Wednesday Peterborough  League One Promotion  Tranmere Rovers Sheffield United  Swindon  Relegation   Hartlepool  Portsmouth  Bury Scunthorpe  League Two  Promotion Port Vale  Gillingham  Cheltenham  Southend  Relegation  Bristol Rovers Plymouth FA Cup - Chelsea Champions League - Borussia Dortmund Europa League - Atletico Madrid