31-12-2016, 12:31
Snoots I'm sure we know more things, have done more research and therefore become more capable of reaching conclusions, but I'm not sure we are actually capable of using that information scientifically or drawing correct conclusions.
Look at all the other stuff footballers did in their lives. They weren't lab rats kept in cages heading tiny footballs every day. Look at all the things their relative wealth gave them the opportunity to do more than the average man ..... how do we rule out these things or evaluate them?
Commonsense tells me heading a football repeatedly can't be good for you, equally is training to such a point of super-fitness that you are prey to regular injury and every illness, healthy? Do Olympic athletes outlive Winston Churchill?
What I'm struggling to say is apparently half the 1966 World Cup squad now suffer memory problems, that sounds terrible, but choose any group of men of that age and how many of them suffer similar problems? Once dementia becomes a news item we never get a baseline ..... so when a cross comes over I don't know whether to head it or just shout yours.
Look at all the other stuff footballers did in their lives. They weren't lab rats kept in cages heading tiny footballs every day. Look at all the things their relative wealth gave them the opportunity to do more than the average man ..... how do we rule out these things or evaluate them?
Commonsense tells me heading a football repeatedly can't be good for you, equally is training to such a point of super-fitness that you are prey to regular injury and every illness, healthy? Do Olympic athletes outlive Winston Churchill?
What I'm struggling to say is apparently half the 1966 World Cup squad now suffer memory problems, that sounds terrible, but choose any group of men of that age and how many of them suffer similar problems? Once dementia becomes a news item we never get a baseline ..... so when a cross comes over I don't know whether to head it or just shout yours.