Trueredsupporter Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 1 hour ago, RedDave said: Details above Not really Ryan Mason fractured his skull kids aren't leaping about going up against Gary Cahill!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlanta Red Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 To give you some insight from over here in the US where heading is not allowed until U12. Any deliberate or accidental header is now an indirect free kick to the other team. To counter act it as well keepers are not allowed to kick the ball from their hands, everything has to be played from the ground. A "build out line" has been brought in about 25 yards from the goal so players have to drop off to allow the teams to try and play out as keeper must play from their feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppyDAZE Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 6 hours ago, wood_red said: The good old 99p floater ball is required. Flat, with a big dent in one side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Northski Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 He's got a point though. Heading the ball can't help your brain in any positive way. Certainly hasn't done me any harm though, my concentration levels haven't got any w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 2 hours ago, BS2 Red said: Have you seen the state of people in this country? Wha ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 Imagine the terrible damage done to players' feet from kicking footballs. Not to mention the awful strain on their bodies from having to take throw-ins. Football is a horrific sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmissionImpossible Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 Thought for one horrific moment I had stumbled upon the daily mail website when I saw the title of this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrongagain Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 11 hours ago, Monkeh said: I can of agree with him to be honest, your body is still developing so restricting it makes sense under the age of 13, that said balls are also getting lighter then 10 years ago Very true, dream ball when I was a kid was leather and certainly a hell of a lot more density than the modern ball, I’m effing stupid in old age but that’s not down to a ball, rather having too much of a ball - ban headers? FFS sake make them wear boxing style headgear????? whatever next? Ban spelling tests - too stressful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grifty Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 This thought process of banning heading will die down. The same happened when Fabrice Muamba had his heart issue, the FA/media were all over getting people having their heart tested for defects, but you don't hear about that anymore. I saw Ryan Mason doing some punditry and the chair he was sat on had more personality so he might as well put his name to this for 3 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC11 Posted February 14, 2019 Report Share Posted February 14, 2019 Don’t agree with him tbh, safety should always be the no1 priority with footballers at such a young age but stopping them from doing one of the main parts of the beautiful game is ridiculous, as said previous footballs are so lightweight these days I’m struggling to understand his point? I feel for the bloke as he had a promising career taken away from him at a young age, in a freak accident during a aerial challenge, not caused from heading a football, unfortunately for him it was a career ending injury, it won’t be the first or the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBW Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 A "solid ball". What's he think kids are playing with? Just give them one of those plastic 'air-flow' balls you buy at the beach. Get some wicked curve on a free-kick with one of those and no chance of any brain damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WOODSY1111 Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 If you think that’s bad my daughters school don’t allow tackling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 22 hours ago, simon uk said: Never did i no arm. Nor me - as I told Jonathan, my pet rabbit, when we were discussing this and other items of news over breakfast this morning. 29 minutes ago, WOODSY1111 said: If you think that’s bad my daughters school don’t allow tackling! No different from the prem then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 16 hours ago, Bazooka Joe said: Imagine the terrible damage done to players' feet from kicking footballs. Not to mention the awful strain on their bodies from having to take throw-ins. Football is a horrific sport. I don't think many are overreacting. I played a lot of football when I was younger as a defender and despite having the ball with the correct technique (forehead, not top of head) I got a lot of headaches after games. My daughter played her first match this week and the affects that heading has certainly concerns me, maybe not to the point of wrapping her up and being overprotective but certainly to the point where I won't mock these researches. There was a point in the 1900s where people drink radioactive drinks, heroine was in cough medicine, bloodletting was a treatment, smoking was said to be good for you and was encouraged, mercury was used to cure syphilis and even using a lobotomy to cure mental illness. The point is all of these things were normal at one point until research was done and these things proved to be highly harmful. It's not a big reach to suggest that smacking your head up against an object repeatedly could actually do some brain damage is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcofisher Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 23 hours ago, phantom said: But surely there are hundreds of thousands of people that have played football, yet there are not that many walking around with head/ brain problems? 52% of the population apparently! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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