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TIME TO BOOT OUT THE INJURY CURSE

Wayne Rooney has had his fair share of metatarsal trouble

Sunday October 12,2008

By John Richardson

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BOFFINS at the University of Teesside are on the case of the curse of the metatarsal.

A number of high-profile players, including David Beckham, Wayne Rooney and John Terry, have suffered broken bones in their feet.

And it could be down to something as simple as the stars changing their boots far too often!

Iain Spears, a reader in biomechanics at the North East university, is investigating the increasing metatarsal problem and said: “Manufacturers want to see their boots looking good, so some players tend to change them every game.

“We’ll look at this among other things.”

INJURIES

12.10.08, 8:36pm

Injuries to sports participants are caused by over training in the "no pain - no gain" syndrome. Coaches and trainers sem to forget that our odies need time to recover from exertions made while training, this buisness of stretching before any exertion could be the reason for hamstring injuries and groin strains, it seems as if the stretching is excessive.

But not being a qualified coach or trainer who am I to apply commonsense to a situation, after all when you listen to sports coaches they all sound as if they say the same as each other. This has a very familiar ring to it, The Labour party ( we have sports directors and therefore we are the best ones to run sport even though we have never played any sports) has most of it's supporters who don't think for them selves because they cannot.

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