Post by Rags on Mar 18, 2012 8:35:00 GMT
In 2007, now-Rotherham manager Andy Scott said this:
"The medicals are nowhere near stringent enough. The fact of the matter is that everyone should be tested. How many times are people going to die? Is it going to take a Wayne Rooney or David Beckham to keel over before anyone sits up and takes notice? Its getting ridiculous now."
"There is clearly no reason why a young person should die when they are in the prime of their career and fitness. Its complete ignorance that this has not been taken further. This is an ideal opportunity now to make it compulsory for all players to be screened."
I think it should be an FA initiative, backed by the PFA. There are mobile screening units who go around and can identify imperfections in the heart that could indicate sudden death syndrome. It needs a sweep now of all the players that are under contract. It would only take 10 minutes to check a player."
www.c-r-y.org.uk/andy_scott_quotes.htm
Scott's own career ended when he was diagnosed with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
We all hope Muamba survives this tragedy, and I hope this is the event that forces the administrators running our national game to wake-up and take action.
"The medicals are nowhere near stringent enough. The fact of the matter is that everyone should be tested. How many times are people going to die? Is it going to take a Wayne Rooney or David Beckham to keel over before anyone sits up and takes notice? Its getting ridiculous now."
"There is clearly no reason why a young person should die when they are in the prime of their career and fitness. Its complete ignorance that this has not been taken further. This is an ideal opportunity now to make it compulsory for all players to be screened."
I think it should be an FA initiative, backed by the PFA. There are mobile screening units who go around and can identify imperfections in the heart that could indicate sudden death syndrome. It needs a sweep now of all the players that are under contract. It would only take 10 minutes to check a player."
www.c-r-y.org.uk/andy_scott_quotes.htm
Scott's own career ended when he was diagnosed with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
We all hope Muamba survives this tragedy, and I hope this is the event that forces the administrators running our national game to wake-up and take action.
