Lets face it word ball boy is to be used loosely here he was a 17 year old young man who with his parents consent could get married and legally could have sex, he knew what he was doing and had told the world on twitter he was going to do it as well allegedly !!!
But is it totally his fault, i am not so sure from my own experience of having boys playing at football academy level and my eldest sons first team in particular had a running track around the pitch they used to make the academy boys take a turn at being ball boys, the boys was briefed if there team was winning they should take there time getting the ball, then roll the ball to the next kid until it got back to the bench, in the meantime the bench would kick a new ball into play and so control the speed of the game, if they was loosing the ball was quickly got and given straight back to the players, i have seen kids being wrestled to get the ball off them at times by away teams players
As for the youth getting kicked i don't agree with that part ( punched yes but not kicked lol ) !!!!