Football, Alan Shearer and Dementia/Alzheimer’s Disease

[Black Belt Jones]

The modern ball weighs nowt, so get your bonce on it and lash it rar in the net you blouse.

Back in the day was a different story - granted. Getting your head onto a rain-sodden casey hoofed upfield would knock you bandy and no doubt did some damage - Jeff Astle and prob many others had long term effects from this.

 

[The binman chronicles]

John Terry wonderful parent. His girl might have a brain she can actually damage.

 

[Rook]

Banning headers would certainly suit our wingers.

One of the reasons why I love this club so much is that we got ahead of this issue by banning wingers altogether.

and lol no the NFL isn't doing anything about this issue. they are just freaked by potential class-action lawsuits. yes they do more than FIFA/FAs do that is faint praise

 

[larbert toffee]

Very interesting documentary, well presented by Alan Shearer,shown in Scotland last night, however Merseysiders knew of this long ago, there was always one of your mates who was a 'Head the ball' haven't heard the phrase for years but it was oft used when we were kids, it was a throw away line but all the evidence is pretty damning for the authorities to at least take look at the likes of training drills.

 

[degsy]

Banning headers would certainly suit our wingers.

and our defenders
But seriously, there is a cause and effect here. It's like a lot of these long term things, if you've a propensity for it heading will bring it along sooner.
Monitoring, more study, and stricter concussion stand downs - not knee jerk blanket bans

 

[Walken]

We should play with sponge footys like you had to at primary school, having said that going up for headers with one that had gone in a puddle was a bit of a nightmare