Quote ="supercat"Based on it being a tough sport if someone comes at you when your back his turned you have to protect yourself. He will be banned no doubt but can’t really blame him for protecting himself from what he saw at that moment.'"
That's not what you said though, you said it was punch or be punched, and there's zero evidence to support that assertion. Players chase players to remonstrate all the time, it's very rare that the player being chased just turns round and decks their opponent.
It's really easy to blame Mossop. Turning round and lamping someone isn't protecting yourself, it's attacking someone else. Other options he had include but are not limited to...pushing Hurrell away, fending him off, backing off himself, putting up some defences.
I'm really struggling to understand the desperate clamour to make out that Mossop has somehow been hard done to here, lots of people making out that he's the first player to ever be chased.
