The serious injuries in football thread

[Jonathan]

Wesley Fofana probably all season with an ACL.

[Zambo]

If they want to reduce non contact injuries, then they should be concentrating on matchday warm ups and warm downs. Of course even with a faultless training regime, you are still going to get some tears and pulls, but that's just part if the game and always has been. It's not just changed overnight.

What they get paid is quite irrelevant, what the injuries cost the club on the other hand. Check out the first few paragraphs and my beloved clubs injury stats from last year...

https://analyticsfc.co.uk/blog/2023/06/ ... physiology.

Cost is therefore relevant and should give clubs an incentive to reduce the number of non contact injuries. If muscles, tendons, and ligaments get stretched without sufficient preparation they will pull, tear and rupture. The game is faster today than it was, but the load on soft tissue isn't that much different. In the old days all they had was a trainer running on the pitch with the magic sponge, today they have significant sports science teams, who should be looking a little harder at themselves and realise they could do a lot better.

[Jonathan]

Reece James out again for “possibly months”

[antdad]

Cost is therefore relevant and should give clubs an incentive to reduce the number of non contact injuries. If muscles, tendons, and ligaments get stretched without sufficient preparation they will pull, tear and rupture. The game is faster today than it was, but the load on soft tissue isn't that much different. In the old days all they had was a trainer running on the pitch with the magic sponge, today they have significant sports science teams, who should be looking a little harder at themselves and realise they could do a lot better.

If you concede the game is faster nowadays the loads on soft tissue must naturally be greater as stopping and starting to and from greater speeds cause more load stresses on ligaments, tendons etc.
I don't disagree about proper prep before and after games and the role of support staff but they're also under tremendous pressure to keep players playing probably to the detriment of their long term welfare.

Sometimes players just break down (KdB, Reece James etc) despite their re-entry being ultra carefully managed.
The main cause of injury though is fatigue so the best prevention is proper R&R, always has been.

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

Reece James out again for “possibly months”

Fucks sake. The heart of the team, crocked

[Holden Mcgroyne]

I was at OT when David Busst's leg snapped in two. Schmeichel ran away to throw up, they chucked some sawdust down where all the blood and gore had been and restarted the game

Simpler times.