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In the taxi into Dublin and the debate is whether heading the football should be taken out of the game.
Apparently a youth tournament is running this and the feeling is the FA is looking at whether to bring it into the wider game.
I understand that if the evidence is overwhelming you can’t let people develop problems in later life. But no headers in football is a really hard thing to imagine or indeed accept.
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Plus they say Wenger is proposing to eliminate the throw in to speed up the game eg a tap or kick in.
That one is lunacy as they will treat it like a free kick and spend time preparing for it (unless a time limit is imposed)
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With a throw-in you can clear the covering players nearby much more easily than with a kick-in. Bad idea.
Heading's hard. Obviously we all think of the King, and that's an argument for banning it. Would make it a different game altogether, though.
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19-07-2022, 14:43
(This post was last modified: 19-07-2022, 14:58 by derbybaggie.)
It’s a interesting one. At first I was thinking it would eliminate the high cross into the box similar to 5 a side where you don’t play above head height and all become rather one dimensional. However I’m guessing the over head height rule wouldn’t apply so the both defence and attack would have to wait until the balls drops down and they can volley or chest down and this could be quite interesting. In the early days there would possibly a lot of hand balls because players will be eager to intercept a dangerous ball dropping into the penalty area. Also the long ball over the top for the Shane Long type striker would increase as the standard headed defence won’t be allowed. The only significant advantage I can see is for goalie who will have no real challenge if the ball is too close to him/her.
Don’t see a problem with throw ins, even though at a young age I broke my shoulder and really struggled to carry out a legal one!
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19-07-2022, 16:10
(This post was last modified: 19-07-2022, 16:12 by drewks.)
Don't really like the idea of no heading - surely with the lighter (and non absorbent!) ball in use today it doesn't present half the risk/danger that it did 30+ years ago?
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It is a difficult one, but the risk certainly nowhere near as bad as in some other sports, boxing for example. There has to be some element of rationality and it is definitely different now to in the Kings day. I can still feel the thud of heading those wet cassie's now and the trickle of blood when you caught the laces wrong. The balls today are nothing like that though, so I do think the whole thing need to be looked at objectively. With the modern type ball how many brain injuries are there caused by heading a ball verses how many balls are headed week in, week out, then draw an opinions from that. I am sure it is probably more the bodies being worried about where there's blame, there's a claim, than any potential long term effects for the players. Of course though if the evidence show a substantial risk then steps have to be taken, my only concern would be what sport next, despite all the safety measures, F1 is still statistically carries a much higher risk of serious injury, in a more similar sport so does rugby.
