Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football and Me Documentary 2017
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- Documentary in which former England international footballer Alan Shearer investigates the potentially devastating link between football and dementia. Recent scientific reports from around the world have revealed that the link between football and dementia could be a result of brain damage caused by heading the ball.
Shearer remains the Premier League's all-time top scorer, with 46 of those goals coming from headers. With recent reports of a worrying number of the England 1966 team suffering from dementia, the former Newcastle forward has a vested interest in football's potential links with brain injury.
Discussing the issue with footballing legends past and present, the former England captain also investigates the latest scientific research from Britain and turns himself over to science before taking his findings to the football authorities
Hi I just want to say thank you for having this on CZcams. You’ll probably never see this but my Grandpa passed away today and to see him in this smiling and laughing is one of the best memories I have of him. To have an opportunity to be apart of this was so amazing and I’m so happy you have it here. Please keep it forever. Thanks
Sorry to hear that Joe. Thanks so much for the contribution to the documentary. Your grandparents came across really well and hope your family are okay during this tough time.
Very sorry for you and your family's loss, Joe. Stay strong, all of you
Thank you, both of you!
@@joetees2535 And we thank you and your family!
Nice comment Joe, hope you and your brothers are doing well.
Those kids probably doesn’t even realize that he’s Alan shearer one of the greatest strikers ever.
Greatest goalscorer in EPL history.
Truly a prolific striker, and a brilliant man outside of football.
Of course they do. They 100% watch MOTD
I do ... i'm 15
Alan Shearer was a good striker, arguably one of the better ones his generation, but to say that he was one of the greatest strikers ever is a bit of a stretch. He only won two trophies - one PL title and the Intertoto cup title (a precurser competition that was lower than the current Europa League). There have been incredible strikers before and after him that would be more deserving of that accolade.
Now with that being said, be was an incredible striker that acknowledged worldwide as an incredible player. In fact in his prime he was one of my favorites along (the original) Ronaldo, Kluivert and George Weah etc.
I do agree that he is one of the greatest British strikers however, so if you meant it like that I fully agree.
I hope in 20 years we don’t see Alan in such a bad way...I hope he’s one of the lucky ones.
Or Les Ferdinand. He was another regular header of the ball.
My mom used to tell me as a kid to not head the ball as I would get brain damage. I thought it wasn't true. I see she was right to tell me this.
Alan is humble, not diseased. He's an amazing commentator. He should be speaking next to Gerrard and Owen.
Owen is literally the laughing stock of footballing commentary
Of course the FA kept it quiet like the NFL ... they know they'll be hit with class action suits for hundreds of millions.
Thanks for the upload. Shearer deserves massive appreciation for shedding light & raising more awareness about the links between heading a ball & dementia. Hopefully this is the catalyst into further investigations being undertaken by the authorities like the FA to clarify if it's the motion of heading the balls or the weight of the balls the players were heading which is the cause of dementia.
Yeah you will be waiting a very long time for the FA/similar authorities to give you anything that could damage profit in the game my friend.
+daved PrimeDice yeah, totally agree. I know for well that they aren't going to be in any rush to put their hands into their pockets.
dementia......... Isn't he that italian midfielder ?
I doubt the FA can pimpoint if the heading caused dementia. But the FA can take some prudent measures to reduce the posible damage from heading and the posible liabilities and talk with FIFA to make those measures worldwide instead of waiting for UEFA to push for progresive measures as the FA is prone to do (remember the ban on women's).
@@ricardosoto5770 That push is already being made, but it needs all the exposure in other sports to prove the link to the executives who are denying it. I found this because I've been following concussions and dementia in NFL and Hockey players. Its all the same signs, and all the same outcomes. People in any sport whose brains are jostled around repeatedly are showing the same results in autopsies.
Doesn't take a genius to work out that any impact on the head is a trauma ....
As an ex goalkeeper I always winced when my center back headed back a goal kick
A pussy can take a beating, but you’ll always be an asshole, Oscar W. I hope you or your loved ones never have to deal with dementia, because it’s absolute Hell watching your loved one disappear right before your eyes. Absolute Hell. Thanks, He-Mans, for being an actual human being as opposed to this POS.
@@oscarw4238 what yoyo said
Bloody hell Fellani and Crouch need to watch this!
The only one who needs to worry is the cat on fellainis head
BatmanTheThird This is all Fellini can do though lol
Really interesting..the balls in the 60s were much heavier and also there was a massive drinking culture in the game! Dementia can also be triggered by alcohol! So the constant heading of the ball + drinking in that time wouldn’t surprise me!!
And when it rained the old footballs back then used to soak up the water. It was like heading a lump of concrete!
I knew football could be dangerous for the head, specially from corner kick or goal kick, the ball comes so fast
I grew up as a massive American football fan. 'Concussion' frankly scared me to death, and made me so thankful that I didn't grow up in the States. Being 23 now, I would've played full contact Gridiron all the way through secondary school if I was over there. I have no doubt at all that I would've already started seeing initial signs of brain disintegration by now.
The curious side of me really wants to see the differing effects between playing styles. Etc. comparing a player who played under Brian Clough (on the deck, to feet), to a player who played for a similar length of time under Dave Bassett (route one, using the air) at Wimbledon.
So.. just WHY exactly are you so keen to imagine the brain-damage you MIGHT have suffered if you'd grown up in a DIFFERENT country, playing a DIFFERENT sport, again??? Is it just a 'thing' of yours???.. You DO 'get' that THIS is about REAL people, REAL sportsmen, with ACTUAL brain damage.. that they and their families have to REALLY deal with EVERY DAY.. and not about 'curious' (ffs) fantacists, don't you???
I’m 28 years old. Started playing football at 5 (striker and goal keeper). Had a concussion from a car accident, a concussion from a blow to my jaw from a punch, and to this day I’m showing signs of CTE. Memory issues, explosive anger, sensory issues, all types of constant headaches, chronic pain and a severe depression and suicidal ideations.
that is sad budy
I doubt one concussion and a punch to the jaw will have done anything 😂
i got concussion from walking into a roadsign post when being an idiot looking at my phone. no pain in particular, but three or four days later i was experiencing what it must be like to have dementia. falling over in the same spot three times one after the other, feeling drunk and imbalanced, pouring water into the dry coffee pot instead of the mug, etc
went away after a few days, but that was one, insignificant and walking pace accident. fairly certain heading a ball could cause similar damage over time
Of course and it's scary.
Nonsense!
Growing up in the 60's and playing football almost every day, painfull.The ball was heavy leather with laces.When it rained the ball doubled in weight.We tried not to use our heads.I scored with my collar bone,stomach and arse rather than head the "concrete"ball.
how are you now
Time for change. We have a "duty of care" as coaches, parents, stakeholders and friends of the game.
My grandad was a footballer in the 30s and 40s, he had vascular dementia when he died in the early 90s. My dad said at the time he thought it was due to heading a big heavy ball thousands of times during his career, back then the balls got even heavier when it got wet.
did those balls use boot laces at one point or were they just heavier
CTE. I haven't seen i mentioned once on this page. CTE. The NFL have known about CTE for a LONG time. American Footballers have shot themselves in the stomach, leaving behind children and successful businesses so that they could leave their brains to research. Very very sad.
Nautilus1972 Yeah, it's scary stuff. I'm the American son of Irish and Dutch parents so I have an appreciation for several football codes but the first team that ever grabbed hold and captured my attention was the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers. One of their all time great players was a Center (offensive lineman, lots of violent often helmet to helmet contact in his era) named Mike Webster who is still recognized as easily of the two or three best ever in his position. Unfortunately Mike has the distinction of being the first former NFL player officially diagnosed with CTE. He was a big hearted wonderful family man, strong as a bull, and the absolute definition of a stud athlete. But all of that went away. Not only did Mike lose his memory but his cognitive function was so severely damaged due to brain trauma that he spent the last years of his life utterly broken mentally and physically a prisoner in his own body. At the time of his death in 2000 aged fifty he was wheelchair bound, almost totally incapable of speech, had not a clue who he was or what his life had been, and could no longer even use the toilet. Imagine being the most decorated and renowned person in your field of work ever and being confined to messing in a diaper at middle age... such a cruel, horrifying, absolutely brutal disease. I've since lost a few loved ones to various forms of dementia and it's absolutely heartbreaking, a cure can't come soon enough.
Props to Shearer for doing this. I grew up in his era and I remember what a great player he was. I can't imagine what it feels like to be interviewing those old pros and thinking, this is me in 30 years' time.
A lot can be done without harming a person. Like the part they talked about damaging the brains by repetitive practices, a simple test of a few hundred ex/footballers in their mid 30s, 50s, 60s and 70s compared to individuals in the same age group who never practiced contact sports should suffice. If heading a ball repetitively causes a significant change in brain structure, chemistry or other things, we would be able to pick up the systematic change. This needs to get funded.
Very moving and important documentary.
Thanks for uploading it through youtube. It was an impactful piece of documentary. I hope it significantly raise awareness in the subject of dementia..
Excellent video. Thank you.
I am a severely head and brain injured person, not through football, a high speed (Car hit) cycling accident (Not my fault). Great awareness program ... Alan, stop falling off ya bike, you'll get ya self injured :)
leewink thanks for sharing brother. Stay strong and keep moving.
I'm praying for you brother
Heading a ball is like a fall on the head
Amazing documentary! :)
This may be a stupid idea, but rather than banning heading, would it be out of the question to make it mandatory for every player to wear a helmet similar to the one Petr Cech used to wear?
Great study Alan and all involved if there is not a just giving site then let’s create one. Best regards, heart felt sympathy and hope for the future to the whole of the football community
Well done Alan good research and communication is essential l think you will move this along
Brilliant work by Alan Shearer to raise awareness for such an important cause!
Great piece of work, we definitely need to know the truth, so the research must be done. There will always be the concern about potential ´compensation´ actions down the road so there will be unspoken fears within the associations..... this will drag out ! My respects to Shearer for dong this.
A great documentary that Alan shearer Deserves credit for the sad thing is even if you show kids the dangers this causes they will still do it the rewards are life changing
Love Alan Shearer.
What an eye opening documentary
Started watching this and the first person that came to mind was Danny Blanchflower, the great midfielder from Belfast who played for and captained Tottenham Hotspurs. He died from Alzheimers and Parkinson's disease. I have no idea if there is any link, but who knows. Alan Shearer was a brilliant player and is a real gentleman. A credit to the game and surprisingly a really good documentarian. Good work Alan.
How has this only got 80k views.
Brilliant documentary. Thank you Alan. I hope the footballing community takes this issue seriously, because we can't afford running away from it.
Oh no my friend, they will not, remember how much money football brings to certain powerful people?! I am surprised that they've let it come this far
I hope everyone can be ok
Legend on and off the field 😍
Fantastic big al
Great documentary
We loved and respected him, in times which were not that multimedia, in Austria very much.
Kind of a Sir image.
How sad is this Jeff Astle was only 55 when he was diagnosed and 59 when he died. He wasn't an old man at all. As a senior care assistant myself with 13 years experience but one thing I would encourage when caring for a loved one with this devastating illness is education, education, education. We have to realise that dementia can begin with some people when they're still in their 20's as early onset dementia. Dementia is an umbrella term as there over 100 different types of dementia. And it's also the families who suffer. I've had families who have grieved for loved ones before they've died and when their loved one has died it has been a relief that their loved one has died that "they're not suffering anymore" and this is because dementia slowly but surely robs the family of their loved one it's like their loved one has died but the body is still living. I love and respect Alan shearer and others like him for bringing this to our attention. The only thing I would say is "suffering from dementia" is the wrong term the correct term for me is "living with dementia" it just makes me glad that we don't know what's round the corner in life and just live each day as it comes. Love life and take each day as it comes. I definitely think their is a link.
He will forever be the captain of Newcastle United.
the pfa and the fa should be ashamed
While heading the ball may be a contributing factor to cte, I also wonder if the jostling effect of running on the brain may also contribute to cte.
Do marathon runners get CTE then?
I don't know , I was just wondering because it seems like the constant motion of going up and down while running would be moving the brain. But I have no idea nor any background in this field
@@davidweaver2156 I think that runners are actually used as a control group in some of these studies, as in they are athletes yet show no increased rates of dementia and CTE is basically nil in their population.
It's an interesting idea though, maybe some jostling below a certain level can be tolerated no matter how many times it happens....
@@Michael-cb5nm thanks for the info, would you happen to know of any studies upon species such as big horned sheep that butt heads while fighting? I am aware of research done with woodpeckers that did show signs of cte
@@davidweaver2156 good question though.
i would gues so. Marathons are more common than football
Good header!
It’s not just heading the game itself is a bit dangerous because of contact occurring in various parts of the game. Semi concussive and concussive blows to the head will still be an issue even if heading is taken away.
Good work by Shearer. But the reality is that Boxing took decades to accept that taking punches caused brain damaged and I can see the same reluctance of acceptance in football. You only have to look at former Liverpool and Chelsea forward Tony Hateley who died 5 years ago and it's hard to deny the link between heading and brain damage.
Or Tommy Smith another liverpool great.
CTE can also masquerade as ALS & Parkinson's, causing identical symptoms that end the same way. As if dementia & suicidal depression weren't scary enough :\
CTE does not remotely resemble ALS
Actually, there is CTE ALS. Called CTEM. Tau accumulating in the spinal cord.
Really interesting documentary especially being a footballer myself who heads the ball a lot. But nothing will change. And personally, I don’t want anything to. It would be changing the beautiful game and I think only people who really really love football more than anything will understand that they’re not entirely too bothered about this as we just want to play the game.
This is a free will decision for an adult. But should children (who don't yet exercise complete free will nor can be expected to know all the facts) be held to the same standard? Or should parents protect their children from this danger? This is the same question being posed to Americans with regards to American football. Societal resistance is immense because it means the diminution of youth football and, more important to the NFL & NCAA and their immense money machines, it means that the future of their institutions are in jeopardy as fewer players will be in the talent pool.
I love football also but I would watch out though as I think many people have the view "it won't happen to me" or "i will worry about it in the later years" but truthfully if you really sit and think about it and one day you are diagnosed with dementia then it will be devastating and "one does not know what they have in life until it is gone". Your mental, social, and physical health is affected. Definitely more big data is needed and nothing is more important than health and wellbeing. Today, the sad thing is power and politics also ruin the beautiful game. We have the researchers, technology and so the funding should be provided and taken seriously to reach definitive conclusions as soon as possible, so the right measures are taken. Without your health you have nothing.
Why not play futsal? Virtually no heading, very skillful, and extremely fun. It’s all I play now and I wish I would have played it when I was coming up.
Top guy
Сan you show the epilepsy safety guidelines doctor gives patient? About falling, drowning, SUDEP in epilepsy seizures. Do you have your graphic one-page version of all Epilepsy Safety?
I don’t know for a fact if I sustained damage, but I recently had an head injury playing soccer. I was part of the wall in front of the goalkeeper during a free kick. The player who took the shot blasted the ball full force into my face. I covered my chest and groin but I wasn’t ready.
The hit was intense but I wasn’t knocked out. Just sort of dizzy and anxious. Here now, a month since and I feel very anxious. I’ve developed sleeplessness and I feel tired all the time. Definitely a change from my previous self. That was just one major hit. I can’t imagine continuing to play and putting myself at risk. I’m only 29.
This documentary is very interesting and significant. I feel like heading is absolutely detrimental to brain health. The FA and FIFA for that matter, should be ethical and invest in research.
I'm hoping that this is a comedy story?? "A ball hit me in face and now I'm different" 😂😂
@@dondamon4669 Well, if you haven’t played competitive soccer, you probably don’t know what I’m talking about. The hits to the head and injury are very real and not comedy.
@@EliHernandezy808Yea it’s true. I think if you continue to play, it’s best to practice not heading the ball as much as possible. Of course you can’t avoid hits sometimes, but also putting your arm in front of your face when you’re in the wall will help.
But practicing chests and shoulders instead of heading the ball will help a lot. I know some guys that can shoulder the ball just as accurately as I can header it
Even if he said there was damage I don’t know if the BBC would have showed it
Hard to really imagine how they'd phase heading out of football. But maybe they could do some compromising by tweaking some rules to push the game in that direction over time and seeing if the popularity of the sport wanes... Allowing defenders into the box for goal kicks has probably been good for centre back's noggins, so more gentle nudges like that could perhaps work.
For instance, they could make short corners more attractive with a rule forcing all defenders to be within the penalty box. Makes the "pump it into the box" or "pump it up the field" options less and less appealing in favour of more build-up focused football by granting more space to the attackers during a corner. Or more extreme, make it just plain illegal to head the ball after a deadball (goal kicks, free kicks, corners etc.)
And yeah, make it standardised that all heading in training is banned, and heading training drills must use a specialise softer ball.
stop it altogether
Billy McNeil the Celtic captain in the 1960s has got it too
andy bhoyf Didn't know that, terrible. That Lisbon Lions lot was a truly special team!
Im mean, you are in your late 70s dementia might come, even if you do not practiced any heading. The worrysome part if when demetica comes to you in your 50s and early 60s as happens to some NFL guys who played in the 70s and 80s. My mother died from dementia, its scary.
No wonder he damaged his head - i remember as a kid playing with mitre balls the same they were in premier league at that time - this ball was so heavy and hard that ive had serious feet pain everytime after i kicked it. I cant imagine shooting this ball with head shot.
every sport has dangers but people should be educated about those dangers that said you can't take heading out of football if you want to introduce it at later age groups or introduce counter measures to make it safer in a training environment (like using soft balls) then thats fine but you can't outright remove it from the professional game its just to integral
Why do all the pro-heading people write as if they have CTE already?
When my son was in grade school, he played soccer, and was quite good at it. One afternoon, I was sitting at his practice and was horrified to hear his coach screaming, "hit it with your head!!" over and over at 12 year old boys. After practice I told my son that he was not to be doing headers. I explained why, and told him if he was as good a player as he was, he could work around hitting the ball with his head. The next practice, he told his coach that his mom said he shouldn't be doing headers. The coach berated him about being a mama's boy, and said if he wouldn't head the ball, he wouldn't be playing soccer. My son no longer played soccer. End of story. No regrets.
I imagine it would be worse for footballers years ago where the ball was made with stronger and heavier materials
I am part of the UK bio bank study, a part of that amongst many other tests, is quite regular mri brain scans. Wouldn't it be sensible if footballers were included in the study to follow their particular brain changes over time.
In the US, they banned heading in the Under 12 training. And restricted in the Under 14. That is a progressive measure since childrens brains, skulls and necks are not as developed and can get hurt more, its better to get the kids to learn how to dribble, pass, move off the ball and kick on goal. Heading is not as dangerous as the full contact tackles of Rugby, ice hockey or worse american football with helment of helmet crashes, but is not harmless, is like getting a jab. a couple of hundreds are ok but thousands might leave you a permanent mark. So the practice of heading shall be done with moderation. In the US studies it shows that heading 1000 times a year put you in risk of congnitive problems. So practice of heading in training shall be restricted for adults. Rio Ferdinand suggestions to use special balls for practice heading and keep practice with real footballs to a minimum is very sound. In the worse scenario, the FA shall reintroduce the handball (batting the ball by hand) as was done in the XIX century before Sheffield FC introduced heading in the game and the use of hands was banned completely by the FA. That would make heading less necessary. Personally I would not support to ban heading, still a lovely part of the game is done properly. But it shall be restricted in practice. And forbbiden for children.
Shearer is such a legend! Wish he had played for Liverpool.....
+North East Working Man I presume you don't like Shearer?
+North East Working Man I presume you don't like Shearer?
How many modern footballers have had the testing that Alan Shearer had done since this documentary came out?. I'm willing to bet not to many, if any at all & probably not to many older players either.
The Norwegians has done more testing on middle aged retired footballers. About 68% seemed just fine but 32% seemed to show mild congnitive impairment.
That guy Chris Nicholl clearly has some brain injury my dad has dementia and I see the symptoms
Chris Nicholl as took a bad turn for the worst.all the best too him the Southampton legend
I can't understand how they get Alan shearer heading the ball off a machine, when he is concerned about dementia
Not sure but a lighter ball and harder/stricter reffing around high kicks etc...?
Matt Tees died last month.Rip
Unfortunately, the brain cant feel pain, so you wont know if youve really hirt ut from heading. You might get concussion symptoms, but a lot of people dont.
The carbon fibre footballs of today are alot different to the leather balls up to the 60's and then the heavy plastic balls up to the 90's but it still must be a concern.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4123437.stm
so the old balls when wet were about 33% heavier vs todays balls, seems like not enough
difference to stop you getting brain damage from repeated heading to
me.
If they are lighter you just head them harder and they travel faster so it's the same impact
well lets analyse.... if you head a balloon for example its impossible to injure yourself from the balloon, you more likely injury yourself from the movement of trying to head balloon to hard.
I have a 200 gram football, its kinda in between flyaway balls and a premier league ball (prem ball 400 grams i think), honestly dont believe it is as dangerous when heading, try a 200 gram one yourself.
If we played with a 200 gram ball though it could ruin the game. Im guessing only solution would be a rule change of heading after 1 bounce only - which is going to completely change the whole game of football. Or maybe some type of headband gear (probably wont work).
I know for me personally i wont be heading a size 5 premier league style football ever again, its very obvious to me now connecting all the dots, i dont need the white coats and organisations to confirm further.
daved PrimeDice it's a difficult one. On the whole football on the whole is good as it is, and heading is a part of that. But you can't ignore medical research. By the way the balloon is a stupid example because it's ridiculously light. My point is if you apply the same force to a lighter football it will travel faster than a heavier football so it will have a similar impact when you head it, due to its similar momentum.
Thank god i was a lazy geek then and now
24:53 THAT MY OLD MAN!!
I’m still gonna header the ball in games and in training
Hard man over here. Look out boys.
Shearer need not worry with that big dome
Is anything really going to change? My kids' football coach is still in the dark ages, telling to kids with any knocks to 'run it off', and that to stop kids heading the ball is like wrapping them up in cotton wool.
It isn't and until we can get coaches to understand that there's a big difference between a kick in the shins and a whack on the head nothing will change.
To be fair he did he watch this documentary, but the only bit he seemed to take any notice of was the final 10 seconds, when Shearer said he wouldn't ban heading!!
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4123437.stm
according to this the modern balls only a few grams difference
so the old balls when wet were about 33% heavier, seems like not enough difference to stop you getting brain damage from repeated heading to me.
Those old balls also became rock solid when they got wet, so no wonder they were getting concussions. Add to that a lot of wet rainy weekends in England and you've got a recipe for disaster.
Man everything secretly sucks if you do the research
CTE. I haven't seen i mentioned once on this page. CTE.
Hard CTE related dementia seems rare in soccer, but cognitive impairment due to subconcusions seems affect a third of former pro footballers. So far the scottish study showed that while some of the demented former footballers in their small study had CTE, most seems to have died from other types of dementia like Alzheimer and Parkinson. Its not that they are demented and homeless in their 50s, shooting themselves in the heart. But there are some dumb morons out there that might by explained by damage due to subconcusive hits.
Don't believe? Simple, ask Ryan Mason.
One thing though, the ball 20 years ago and older was more hard and weight more than nowadays, right? So it shouldn't affect that much to today's football players, hopefully.
It travels faster nowadays tho
If you watched, the older balls actually were lighter when dry, but yes they were heavier when wet.
I find it hilarious that 20 minutes in he's heading footballs no scrumcaps or anything 😂 beautiful header though
can not remember the name but back in the day there was a wimbledon striker who always wore a headband. Maybe this was because he headed a lot.
John Fashanu?
@@cwt6929 It was Eric Young :) But he was a defender :/
It’s a horrible horrible illness but don’t blame football
The FA, clubs, coaches and some of the medical community remain in complete denial of dementia and other serious injuries/conditions of footballers and keep their traps shut. Players seem to be treated like disposable tissues and their health is not a priority. If premiership players are treated in this way, grassroots football is even worse because they don’t have pitch side medical help. Only when independent of the FA tests are made mandatory and legally binding and players have full knowledge of what is going on will things change.
I suggest that players wear helmets or whatever peter check wears, so they wear them in training when practicing headers.
Or use softer/lighter practice footballs for heading practice most of the time.
First of all - fantastic documentary, and the ABSOLUTELY needs to be researched seriously and honestly. However, this comment section is disillusioning as it seems to be divided between people trying to deny the evidence, and people who seem gleeful at the idea of banning heading outright. To the first group, dementia is not comparable to a broken leg, it is utterly devastating to the victims and it family, and the possibility that repeatedly heading a heavy football is causing it must be faced, and if there is no safe way to allow heading, so be it. To the second group, banning heading, WOULD DAMAGE the game. The fact that you really like Barcelona's style is not an argument that it is OK - or even logical - to arbitrarily ban another integral part of the game, which absolutely adds to the spectacle and quality of the game, because it's not so important to you. The drama of a corner would disappear without heading, and one of the great things about football is that unlike most sports literally every body type, from small and fast to big and stout all have a place in the game, and tall well built players heading ability is a crucial part of that. Apart from a couple of people, no one appears to be discussing the possibilities of foam balls in training, start heading later etc, which COULD solve the concussion issue without losing heading. Again to the first group, a minor reduction in heading quality due to less practice would be worth it to protect players and retain heading as part of the game, and to the second group, you can have tika-taka and heading in the game and arbitrarily declaring we need to ban it straightaway without looking at alternatives is just high-handed and pompous.
I'm basically Alan's age n have played deep into my 40's with no reservations. I estimate I've headed over 700 balls in my life and took the full force to me monty 19 times I've counted. I'm sure viewed thru a third parties eyes im off cognitively but putting a ball on frame with your head is pure man made ballistics nothing feels better. F it. If I make it to my 50s I can't remember where I put me karkies too bad for me. I had fun doing it.
3 years on and the FA have just banned heading to under 12s. If people want to learn about technique I don’t see why they don’t just use foam balls
What a massive cop out by the footballing authorities here. It's an easy first step to ban heading in kids and any decent football coach should relish the challenge of developing the required techniques of control without heading at under 11s and younger. The benefits are both from a health point of view and a footballing point of view. Nowadays they just want to rake in money and any negative headlines they see as preventing that. I just hope that somebody sues them and is successful.
A game without heading.... Go to Spain....
Jajaja, maybe they know something...
People have a tendency to not accept new research in fear of it actually causing change, they prefer to stick with tradition and turn a blind eye to whats actually happening. It's no coincidence that the sons and wives of footballers with dementia, as in this programme, all want heading of the ball to be massively decreased, and the ones, like JT, who haven't been affected are still advocating heading the ball.
It's no surprise because people react emotionally. Just because their loved ones had dementia doesn't mean the entire fucking world should stop.
But surely the modern football is not the same thing as the old heavy balls.....
No, it's worse, because a lighter ball moves faster through the air, and therefore has a larger impact on the head
@@ethandalton6480ban soccer! Basketball is a REAL MAN’s. Kicking balls is something women do 😀
Heading the football is a big part of the game it’s just like kicking the ball ⚽️ if we get rid of heading we won’t have any more amazing memories like Gerrard goal in the champions league final which was a fantastic header so to get rid of heading would be a sad choice because it could ruin the beautiful game.
Grow up. We're talking about brain damage.
Surely some kind of head protection could be invented that still allows heading of the ball, while protecting the brain?
I think you're brain damaged mate.
I played rugby for years, the knocks in that are nothing compared to boxing but still.. big hits every minute - seeing stars, time shifting, concussions regularly, with stitches at the end of most games. I came through scans with no scarring at the end of my career but then I was almost kicked to death one night and left with a brain injury and a dented skull. But life goes on.
I just find this over legislating for life. I've known rugby players and boxers and non-sporting regular people destroyed by alzheimers.
but to compare football headers with the hits of the NFL or the NHL is laughable and now the NHS are pushing this 'soft' medicalisation of every risky aspect of life.
I think its utter bullshit.
Quit drinking guys, thats a ton more dangerous.
@@Nautilus1972 Then lets talk about foam baslls etc
Dr Hunter looks like Richard Bacon
Everything has gone mad now because the ball used in 1966 when wet was 4 times heavy then a ball today they want to ban heading a ball FFS
Actually, the risk to players may be greater today as the ball travels faster than in the past.
Use a bit of brain power here ffs. First of all, balls with waterproof coating have been produced since the 80s, and many players of that area are suffering the effects. Secondly, players from dryer climates also had the same issues...it doesn’t rain day and night all over the world like it does in England.
RIP Chris Nicholl 😢 31:01
My mum died with dementia and didn’t play football
People die of lung cancer without smoking. Sometimes things have more than one cause.
@@Michael-cb5nm true
Its a shame shearer
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