Heading to be banned?

[Bubbles]

if heading was to be banned anything that moves the ball over a meter of the ground will be redundant.

Corners will be a waste too

[Anon]

On 29/10/2019 at 09:26, FindernRam said:

There is a certain momentum building to accept that continual heading of the ball or head to head contact with opponents is a really bad thing, leading to dementia and other nasties.

Some schools are already talking about banning it for under 16's.

If heading were to be banned in the adult game would you still watch it?

No.

It may seem like an over reaction, but football is already becoming something of a parody of itself. This would just be the final straw.

The research conducted on linking heading with dementia is sketchy. I'd love to know what their explanation for the fact that women suffer from the condition far more than men. Also, as others have already pointed out, the balls currently being used are so much lighter than the ones used by the people in their data samples.

[Sexydadbod]

I thought the dementia thing was more linked to how hard the footballs in the past used to be in contrast heading in a wider context. 

[Ghost of Clough]

15 hours ago, Anon said:

No.

It may seem like an over reaction, but football is already becoming something of a parody of itself. This would just be the final straw.

The research conducted on linking heading with dementia is sketchy. I'd love to know what their explanation for the fact that women suffer from the condition far more than men. Also, as others have already pointed out, the balls currently being used are so much lighter than the ones used by the people in their data samples.

A lot softer too which probably has more of an impact than the weight of the ball itself