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Welcome to The FA Concussion Guidelines. Here you will find helpful information and advice about how to recognise and manage a concussion from the time of injury through to a player’s safe return to football. The guidance, which is designed to support those managing head injuries in football at all levels, is available in two forms – […]
The Football Association and the Professional Footballers’ Association have appointed Dr William Stewart and colleagues at the University of Glasgow and the Hampden Sports Clinic to lead an independent research study into the incidence of degenerative neurocognitive disease in ex-professional footballers. Following two years of research and development The FA and the PFA have today […]
Read More… from Breaking News – FA & PFA Commission Dementia Link with Football
A SCUNTHORPE junior football club is believed to be the first in North Lincolnshire to introduce a total smoking ban at its ground. As reported in the Scunthorpe Telegraph, Park Tigers JFC will implement the ban today (Friday, March 31) and prohibit smoking anywhere at Charles Le Quelenec Park on Brumby Wood Lane. […]
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Grooming is when someone builds an emotional connection with a child to gain their trust for the purposes of sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or trafficking. Children and young people can be groomed online or face-to-face, by a stranger or by someone they know – for example a family member, friend or professional. Groomers may be male or female. They […]
Read More… from Advice from the NSPCC – Grooming What it is, signs and how to protect children
The days of kids 10 years old or younger heading the ball in a football game or practice are over in the USA or OVER!! In resolving a class-action lawsuit regarding the large number of concussions in the sport, the U.S. Soccer Federation has issued new guidelines either banning or limiting players heading the ball depending on […]
Read More… from Heading the ball for under 10s banned in U.S mini soccer!!!!
