How dreadful Is this going to be a heading thing and we start to see more and more of these? Or potentially just age
Already has been confirmed as being due to heading. This is from Wikipedia on the sad death in 2002 of West Brom legend Jeff Astle: On 19 January 2002, Astle choked to death at his daughter's home aged 59.[4] The cause of death was a degenerative brain disease that had first become apparent as much as five years earlier. He had been described as an exceptional header of the ball, and the coroner found that the repeated minor traumas had been the cause of his death, as the leather footballs used in Astle's playing days were considerably heavier than the plastic ones used later, especially when wet. This was not the first case of a footballer's illness or death (particularly in the form of Alzheimer's or dementia type symptoms) being connected to heading old-fashioned footballs, another example being the former Tottenham Hotspur captain Danny Blanchflower who died of Alzheimer's disease in December 1993.[5] A verdict of death by industrial injury was recorded. In 2014, the Justice for Jeff campaign was launched, calling for an independent inquiry into a possible link between degenerative brain disease and heading footballs.[6] Subsequently, he was confirmed as the first British footballer known to have died as a result of heading a football.[7] In the same year it was claimed by a neurosurgeon that Astle had died as a result of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disease previously associated with boxers.[8] We don’t have any idea yet whether or not repeated heading of the much lighter plastic footballs used nowadays has the same degenerative effect. Hopefully not.
Gabbi just did his ankle badly against Milan. Gone off in tears. I still love that little tramp. Get well soon Gabbi.
I read somewhere that Leeds have sold out for tonight's game against Crewe. That's bloody impressive if so.
Real have bid £134m for Mbappe and he wants to go. Sounds like Ronaldo might be going to PSG. Mental.
He's a very good player. It's very Chelsea that their 2019/20 season showed that they actually had good young talent in Abraham, Mount, James etc that could get them to the CL places, and then they immediately shrugged and went back to throwing around money.
Was it Abraham that got put on by tuchel for 20 minutes last year and then pulled off again? Didn't like to see that at all.
He must feel like a prize jackass. Bayern Munich wanted him and he signed a new Chelsea contract at money no one will match. And the new manager doesn’t even play a system that uses someone in his position talk about a waste of likely 2 years
They have. I read somewhere that their debt is over €1 billion. So, what’s another €150 million or so on that? Should be banned from making any transfers in my opinion - but they’ll carry on until their backers pull the plug
Real Madrid's finances aren't half as bad as Barca's, for what it's worth. The 900m€ is somewhat milsleading as that was all liabilities, which includes owed transfer fees, wages, and all manner of other things rather than being net debt. They certainly aren't in good shape, but a fair bit of their debt can be ascribed to the renovation of the Bernabeu. They actually had more cash than debt not long ago, and their financial results for the first half of COVID were better than most big clubs. So can they afford Mbappe? Probably, more or less. Should they spend that on a guy with a year remaining in his deal? Dear god no.
Kanes come out and said he's staying at Spurs this summer. Wonder if that means he's going in January instead. He should have known better than to sign a new long term contract at Spurs if he wanted to win things. And not to trust a word Levy says unless its written down in a contract.
After tonight's great away performance in the cup here's the highlights of another one from Soton's other team in the FA Cup down at the dark end of the M27 played last Saturday... All set for another Hampshire derby at Alton in the next round.
Pep to leave City at the end of 2022/23 season. Will take a break then wants to manage a national team. Come on FA, get him in.
