Since when has it become acceptable to manouvre the spotlight onto your own magnanimous gesture of accepting your due punishment for a despicable act? Are player's agents, PR gurus -these linguistic contortionists - the ones to blame?
In the few words Barry Hall has uttered it is pretty clear that he feels there were extremely mitigating circumstances for his actions. I'm not sure what they might be, but you can bet his team of legal advisors will track somebody down.
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I believe the appropriate punishment is a suspension for the remainder of the season (!) and an uncontested walloping from the poor young blokes mum with an 'off' carp!
I think there are some mitigating circumstances:
- the guy's surname - is there a missing "l"?
- what was he doing near Barry - that is clearly dangerous territory
- the jumper he was wearing - likely to make Barry remember the 2006 GF
- Barry might have thought no one was watching - perhaps his mind explosion was to think that there was only one field umpire and no video review
- he doesnt play for Richmond.
I must agree that the PR boys have done well here - and having worked in PR I can confirm the view is apologize as soon as you can and recapture the initiative.
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