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  1. Plum

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    I can confirm that :emoticon-0101-sadsm
     
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    No politics. You know the rules.
     
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    Very good!
    The way people used to let their dogs roam meant I was very pleased to lose the deposit.
     
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    Little true story, three ex Tigers are in care homes, I wont name them but, a couple of their old team mates and a famous old face from FC went to see them recently as they do on a regular basis.
    The question was asked about dementia and if heading the ball was a cause of it.
    One of the visiting party pointed to a dozen old ladies also suffering from dementia in the same care home and asked 'Who did they play for then' ?
     
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    Charlton away last game - book early!


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  6. Plum

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    Amusing story but by and large we'd probably all get dementia if we lived long enough. Women tend to live longer than men so there's bound to be more of them with dementia. Men seem to peg out before dementia kicks in, heart attacks, strokes, etc. So when young-ish men, who have played football, get dementia it's quite right to ask questions.
     
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    Not trivialising dementia at all but the word amongst a lot of the old players is that they are sceptical to say the least. If it can be proven that heading a football is a cause and it brings the old players a few bob then fair enough.
    What causes 'youngish' men who haven't played football to suffer from dementia ?
    Either way, it's too heavy a subject to go into when Hull City have won 3-0 away from home against a team who had won six on the trot at home and only conceded one goal from a penalty before tonight.
     
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    Quite right, far too heavy a subject. UTT.
     
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    A landmark study published last year found footballers were five times more likely to develop Alzheimer's and up to four times more likely to die from other degenerative brain disorders such as motor neurone disease and Parkinson's.

    The more studies that are done, the more the evidence mounts up.
     
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    I must be a lucky bloke then. We got it drummed into us at school from the age of 11 to head those old leather footballs as far as we could. Hours and hours practising. When those balls were wet I don't think anyone, not even the goal keepers could reach the half way line with a goal kick. Now they can head it further.
     
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    Maybe you've got it to look forward to... :emoticon-0105-wink:

    Hope not.
     
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    Football wise. I can re-call every player, position, result, crowd etc from the 1965/66 season but I couldn't tell you who played for us last week !
    That's a sign of getting old, hopefully not dementia, so as you may be able to tell, I'm sceptical on this one. My old fella is 88 and played football for the army and at a good standard locally for a long time. He still reminds me what a twat I was as a lad with stories I'd forgotten about.
     
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    Maybe that's because you have actively tried to forget them.
     
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    So much for fans getting back into games, the only areas to end up in Tier 1 are Cornwall and the Isle of Wight.
     
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    The next away game at Oxford may have some fans in attendance, Oxford are in Tier 2, so could be max of 2000 fans present.
     
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    Plenty of tier 2's though.
     
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    Burnsy was saying some sporting events, football, rugby league will have fans in. Good news for those two rugby league hot spots. Though there are 3 areas, the Isles Of Scilly are tier 1.
     
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    I thought the criteria for fans attending was tier 1 areas only. I don’t remember any mention of T2
     
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    My understanding is that tier 1 can have up to 4k fans, tier 2 can have up to 2k fans.
     
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    It is and I'd actually forgotten that as well.
     
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