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GIF: Norwegian ball-boy gets absolutely leathered in the face with this wayward shot

Published 22:41 4 May 2015 BST

Neil Treacy
GIF: Norwegian ball-boy gets absolutely leathered in the face with this wayward shot

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Being a ball-boy aint easy.

For starters, you have to deal with overpaid prima donnas expecting a swift return of the football every time it goes over the line. As well as that, if you're as nervous and awkward a child as I was, you run the constant risk of falling over in front of tens of thousands of people. But most of all, you are eternally in the firing line, as this unfortunate Norwegian boy found out. That's what you call taking one for the team.

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GIF: Norwegian ball-boy gets absolutely leathered in the face with this wayward shot