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twoleftfeet 11:06 Thu Dec 24
Heading to be a thing of the past in 10-15 years?

According to Ryan Mason on the BBC sports pages.

What’s your thoughts?

It’s sad that some people have got dementia due to, possibly, heading a ball but once again it is a tiny fraction of players. So tiny in fact it couldn’t even be worked out.

If heading is banned then, for me, football will be finished.

Alex Bunbury 6:55 Thu Dec 24
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Trevor Morley must be in trouble. He seemed to spend his whole career trying to head huge punts by Ludo.

Grumpster 4:15 Thu Dec 24
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I mean when they say about the older players, they were playing with heavier balls than the pampered mob of today and those fuckers probably soaked up the water making them even heavier, along with the fact it was still a contact game.

All getting ridiculous.

Chigwell 3:17 Thu Dec 24
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About half of the PL goals I saw on highlights this week were headers. If heading were banned, there would have to be radical changes made to the game just to keep it entertaining. 5-a-side rules perhaps?

Lily Hammer 3:06 Thu Dec 24
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Ok, thanks for the stats, Sven.

If it really is three times the norm, and they have got that from testing loads of footballers at every level, then it’s clearly a thing.

What kind of percentage of footballers get it/ don’t get it? Is it still a tiny minority of players?

I’d hate to see heading disappear. The game I’ve known will finally be gone, if that happens. It’s already half way out.

Sven Roeder 2:13 Thu Dec 24
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Lots of things contribute to people getting dementia
Think they are just saying that players have been getting it at a rate 3 times or thereabouts more than the little old man or lady in the street.

Think that’s the way of sports generally re head injuries and protecting players.
In the old days players would be knocked out and play on
Football is close to having concussion subs and at some point will allow temporary subs while players are assessed.

zico 2:04 Thu Dec 24
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Lily Hammer 2:02 Thu Dec 24

That's very true.

Lily Hammer 2:02 Thu Dec 24
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If heading footballs for their careers brought on dementia in these players, what brings it on in all the little old ladies who get it?

zico 2:02 Thu Dec 24
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Vexed 1:54 Thu Dec 24

Doesn't the headgear in boxing have it's downsides with the way the brain is moved whilst wearing it? Might be thinking something totally different but sure I read that's why it isn't worn in professional bouts.

Vexed 1:54 Thu Dec 24
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I imagine there will be some sort of incredibly cunty headgear insisted upon at some point.

Uncle Albert 1:23 Thu Dec 24
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There’s a concerted effort at the moment to turn it into a woman’s game for the American market.

twoleftfeet 1:20 Thu Dec 24
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We shall never see the likes of Andy Carroll, Peter Crouch and Ian Dowie again.

I knew I’d find a bright side.

Sven Roeder 1:17 Thu Dec 24
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Yes, players know that sport has risks but none of them imagined playing football would make them susceptible to dementia.

Of course Northern is fiercely protective of BENT-eke as being fisted by big black men is one of his most cherished hobbies.

Russ of the BML 1:15 Thu Dec 24
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As always with these things they concentrate on the cases of it. Not the cases of not.

How many hundreds of players have retired that haven't had dementia compared to ones that have?

Not saying I don't think there's any substance to it but to me its a bit like changing the colour of the ocean to match a green rock pool.

Faux Bare 1:01 Thu Dec 24
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Ryan Mason needs to get his head tested.

ornchurch ammer 12:52 Thu Dec 24
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Football as we knew it 20 years ago is finished. End of.

Everything that has happened since has reduced it to a watered down version of it. Removing heading will just be another step in that process.

Far Cough 11:58 Thu Dec 24
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only1billybonds 11:52 Thu Dec 24
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How about we let people make a choice?

If you play football there is a risk of injury and various other ailments.

Or you can play safe and take up knitting. But be sure to file down the end of the needles in case you pierce a lung with them.

Nanny state bollox!


Ag ag ag ag

and spot on

Northern Sold 11:57 Thu Dec 24
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In one bill.... anyone ... at any level... that has ever stepped on a football field... a rugby field... or a boxing ring knows the dangers. It should be a personal choice.

zico 11:54 Thu Dec 24
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It's obviously a major concern but I guess you could say the same about MND in Rugby with several high profile players being affected and indeed Steve Thompson the ex England player has recently been diagnosed with dementia and is leading a group of retired rugby players taking legal action against the RFU.

Not sure where I saw it but a recent article suggested that whilst you can limit kids heading the ball in training that itself could be dangerous because the correct technique might not be learnt and heading a football badly may cause as many problems.

So far Geoff Hurst and Roger Hunt have avoided getting ill with dementia and both were forwards so it suggests many variables come into play but as others have said much more research needs to be done.

only1billybonds 11:52 Thu Dec 24
Re: Heading to be a thing of the past in 10-15 years?

How about we let people make a choice?

If you play football there is a risk of injury and various other ailments.

Or you can play safe and take up knitting. But be sure to file down the end of the needles in case you pierce a lung with them.

Nanny state bollox!

Westside 11:42 Thu Dec 24
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Perhaps cut down/restrict/ban heading in training, but allow in matches.

No boxing fan, but I believe headguards are used in sparring and in actual bouts in the Olympics? Although not perfect, could these headguards be modified, for use in training in football? Or the headguard like Petr Cech used, post that nasty head injury he had.

Don't know the level of dementia in former boxers, but thought it would be more apparent, given the pounding fighter's heads must take. Perhaps the head guards do work? Or are head punches limited in sparring/training?

wd40 11:35 Thu Dec 24
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Lots of big compensation cases on the books and hanging around
American football paid out and settle to get it out of the way.
Did see a report about he lighter ball are more dangerous due to the speed they can travel at.
Yes hate to think what the game will be like in ten years time.
Hopefully Most of on here will be in a home just looking forward to a bed bath by then.

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