o/t Calls to ban kids from heading the football

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-impact-brain-against-skull-cause-damage.html

I know this comes round every so often, but I really can't decide where I stand on this. Life isn't risk free, but then we should be protecting our kids.

 

What a load of ****.

Might as well just ban football altogether.

 

I essentially agree, but not for medical reasons.

Kids should be developing close ball control with their feet, focusing on speed, passing, touch and so on.

The ball should rarely go above knee height.


Small pitches, small goals, fewer players on a team.

Heading should be developed later as a separate skill.

 

I know most footballers are thick as pigshit.

But...

 

I usedd 2 ead da baarl thrum da ayge uv farv un nevur dud mi eny arm

 

Balls are light now, or if anybody is worried just wear a Steve Terry headband to cushion the impact

 

I think all footballers should be wrapped in cotton wool and put in a suit of plate mail.

 

They're the heaviest they ever have been.

 

Load if rubbish

 

The old leather footballs when I was at green huts school use to get heavier as the game went on in wet weather.

Heading one was like heading a brick at times.

Explains a lot in my case



Bet there not as heavy as a wet leather ball from the late 60's PLT

 

The official weight has only ever changed once, in the 1930s and that was to make it heavier.

The old ones used to soak up water but it didn't rain every day then same as it doesn't now.

 

Green huts, another childhood memory demolished.

 

Aye knocked down fifdave school and Endike anarl and built monstrositys in their place