Personally I think AFL coaches in Australia should be arrested/fined for breaking the phones in coaches boxes. Imagine if a member of the public trashed payphones in the arena, they'd certainly be brought to account.

Eh??? Do tell.. Us non-Aussies haven't heard about this one.

Iskandar

In Australian football the coaches sit high up in the stands and relay messages to assistants below via a wired phone. There have been many cases where a coach has got very angry and kept slamming the phone on the bench until it breaks.

I think the concern is kids copy this behavior...and adults (same thing!) - so 1) its not very sportsman like / respectful, 2) no one got hurt...but that might not always be the case...a kid trying this 'celebration' in his local club could end badly....even in this example a piece of hording could have flew of into the crowd.

I understand how it can happen - you lose control for a second or two, but after he kicked the first barrier, he should have reeled himself in really...and it would have been no big deal.

And look what we are discussing - not a fantastic match and his skills, and that's ALL the kids were talking about at our club. When I said who saw the WC finals...they were all shaking there heads...then someone piped up, oh where that bloke went mad and kicked the hording to pieces, and most of them had seen that. But no one actually watched the game. I imagine they are all looking the incident up on you tube.

Shame.

This is the "think of the children" argument? Sensationalizing it in the media doesn't help and neither does abdicating responsibly for kids' behavior to completely unrelated figures.

ZJK similarly ripped his shirt after one championship, and Sebastian Vettel also got fined for doing donuts after winning a championship (rules later changed to specifically allow donuts...amending the ridiculous with more of it). Let's just say people overly concerned about others' opinions of them aren't as likely to break out in feats of merit.

Now after taking his money and clutching at their pearls just before fainting, the ITTF have decided that ZJK kicking the barriers was actually really cool. So cool, in fact, that they've decided to use it in a promotional freaking video (that looks like something they think they are directing at kids because it has rock and roll or something). Look at around 1:10 mark. They make it look pretty badass and I doubt this is going to discourage the kind of behavior they claim to be so appalled about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtFJMnN4ozQ

Curious what people think of this. (Or as the previous commenter said, think of the children).

This is the "think of the children" argument? Sensationalizing it in the media doesn't help and neither does abdicating responsibly for kids' behavior to completely unrelated figures.

ZJK similarly ripped his shirt after one championship, and Sebastian Vettel also got fined for doing donuts after winning a championship (rules later changed to specifically allow donuts...amending the ridiculous with more of it). Let's just say people overly concerned about others' opinions of them aren't as likely to break out in feats of merit.