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Post by davethebass on Aug 25, 2017 6:22:25 GMT
If you head it right it doesn't hurt. Love getting on the end of a driven cross. True dat. I was shit at headers
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Post by lawrieleslie on Aug 25, 2017 6:29:26 GMT
My Grandad used to swear that Stan could cross the ball in such a way, that he'd keep the stitching away from Nobby Steele's head. Surely bollocks... I studied physics at uni, but have never thought to question this theory until now! It's quite possible. David Beckham said that the flight of a modern football can be influenced by the valve which imparts an imbalance to the ball and can be used to a players advantage when taking a free kick, corner etc. I would think that the imbalance of the laces and inflation tube of a casey could have been used in a similar manner. Your Grandad was probably correct.
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Post by elystokie on Aug 25, 2017 6:48:09 GMT
It wasn't exactly rare to see someone head a wet leather 'casey' when we played Ladsandads in the 70s but plenty of times we'd just let the long kick out from the keeper bounce before trying to win it, we had some nutters it didn't seem to bother, but for the rest of us it bloody hurt! Several coaches I've had would have given an absolute bollocking to the tune of "NO F****ING BOUNCE!!!" or was the ball that heavy it hit the ground and didn't actually bounce? Obviously if the ball was wet so was the pitch, which usually meant it was something of a quagmire, so it didn't tend to bounce much
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Post by binthelplates on Aug 25, 2017 20:59:03 GMT
Dubbin..... I'm guessing went out of fashion when they bought in the plastic coating on the footballs. Remember my hands being waterproof for days after slapping some dubbin on the old footballs.
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Post by scfcrmagic on Aug 26, 2017 0:29:13 GMT
You don't hear about the weights of owd wet balls but after the death of Jeff Astle of Notts County then West Bromwich who was just 59 when he died in 2002. A coroner decided Astle suffered neurological damage as a result of heading the ball. His illness was later confirmed as a condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy. His daughter Dawn is trying to get the PFA to fund the issues of over 300 ex-players who have approached her in relation to dementia from football issues! Our own Big John died from dementia related illness didn't he? He did, but It is highly probable that it was the same as Jeff Astle's condition, which was Damage to the brain caused predominantly by heading footballs. I know that my dad broke and fractured many fingers from making saves back in the day... A while back when the new lighter football was introduced, Nike commissioned him to do a report from a goalkeepers prospective as to how it would affect the flight of the ball and the effect on the keeper .....
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