Last week, with reports of heading a ball causing an increase in Dementia cases among ex-footballers, we ran an article that asked a vital question.
Our article – could-this-ever-happen – in what appears, these days, to be an ever-changing and evolving game, asked whether the calls for a reduction in heading the ball could result in heading, sometime in the future, being banned.
Naturally, our article contained a poll which asked the simple question:
Football Without Heading, Will It Happen?
We gave our readership three options to select from – Yes, No and Undecided.
The result showed, with 69% choosing the NO option that you cannot see a day when heading is banned and football as we know it today will resemble a game with five-a-side rules.
However, 21% reckon the day will come when there is no heading in football by choosing the YES option with the other 10% sitting on the fence by going for the UNDECIDED option.
But, in continuing the debate, we should point out that several of those that frequent the site, on a regular basis, declared that the balls in use now are far different from those used years ago, with the heavy leather laced items being a thing of the past.
A good point but a comment that leads me down another train of thought.
I wonder, come ten years’ time, how much more the balls we use will have changed, could developments be made to help reduce the risk of developing Dementia?
Personally, a game without headers would be a poorer game, who does not like a towering far-post header from a sublime cross hitting the back of the onion bag!
COYH’s
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