FA guidelines: Children to no longer head footballs during training
The training guidelines are effective immediately but do not recommend a heading ban during matches.
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Football is dead
This nannying will continue until we are all dressed in bubble wrap.
They will go after tackling next.
Yep.
And all the while you can join the army if you want
They already have ...footballs already been made a contact sport where no contact is allowed..triple salkos with double toe loops when the wind blows you over dont help either.
Have you seen Demolition Man?
We are heading for the dystopian future of the Cocteau plan.
I feel like Edgar Friendly standing ranting about wanting a big greasy cheeseburger, while I smoke a big fat cigar. Because that's what I want, and fuck somebody trying to tell me it isn't good for me.
This has been done in the US already, but the age apparently varies state to state. In NC there is no heading allowed at the U12 age group and younger. However in Virginia it is U11 and younger which I found out this weekend when my daughter played in Virginia and the girls were heading the ball. In NC if a ball hits the head, intentionally or not, play is stopped and it is a free kick for the opposing team.
Where are you in NC and VA?
It's been dying for years, very sad.
dunno what the fuss is.
all of us on here headed footballs in the early years of our development and we all seem fine...
all of us on here headed footballs in the early years of our development and we all seem fine...
dunno what the fuss is.
all of us on here headed footballs in the early years of our development and we all seem fine...
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Fucking 'nanny state' strikes again!
Absolutely crazy.
Footballs today are so light in weight that this is obviously an over reaction by the nanny state.
The famous Spanish tippy-tappy football style is what they are after, along with the elimination of tackles - it might look good but it’s not football!
I'm in favour of it. You only have to look at the current state of Judas, Dixon, Keown, Adams and Merson to see that heading the ball leads to severe long term brain damage.
Oooo I suspect in the case of adams and merson its copious amounts of Colombian and enough booze to float, and sink, the titanic in that's had more of an effect