Now that we have a player from Equador who is used to playing at altitudes of 10,000 feet above sea level, does this mean that we will do better at high level Premier League grounds next season such as West Brom which is the highest ground in England and Wales at 551 feet or the Brittania at Stoke at 431 feet? Discuss.
He's going to be super fit but was he playing at altitude in Mexico? That's where he's been playing most of the time recently.
Yes, I've played rugby/trained out at high altitude in South Africa and it's ****ing horrible. When I came home, it was much easier here.
Agree with this, Valley. It took me months to acclimatize and the thin air really took it out of you. My apartment came in a complex with its own swimming pool (3), two tennis courts and two squash courts. I played squash almost every night and the ball really used to fly - we had to use the slowest bounce ball (yellow dot from memory but stand to be corrected). On the plus side, when I played football, I regularly pulled the trigger from 35/40 yards with a realistic expectation of testing the keeper. And as for golf, I felt like a pro off the tee when I caught the ball off the sweet spot - depending on wind and conditions etc, I occasionally got 275/300 yards and I'm totally crap at the game. Question: why were my shots almost always on the fairway when I had no caddy? Answer: snakes!!!! I usually had a caddy (young local black lads used to battle for the job when you turned up at the course) so I used to fire away regardless, with the inevitable loss of accuracy, knowing my caddy would go into the rough to look for the ball. On the rare occasions I had to pull my own cart, I made damned sure I played as straight as possible by tapping the ball around the course. No way was I walking into the rough!! The local wriggler population included amongst many others, the black mamba; green mamba; boomslang; Cape cobra; Egyptian cobra; Rinkhalls spitting cobra; gaboon viper and puff adder. A caddy once came running back to the trolley, grabbed an iron from the bag and ran back into the rough. I called after him and he shouted back, "snakey, boss, snakey" then started smashing seven bells out of something in the undergrowth. I never went close enough to see what it was!! Good memories of South Africa.
Yes. He'll have an advantage for a while but it will soon be negated - and he'll be at a disadvantage on a freezing night in February when it's snowing and he ain't acclimatized to our conditions
