Heading for Trouble: Football’s Head Impact Crisis — And How We Save the Game
Autor Kevin Mooreen Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 aug 2026
'This is the book that every fan, player and administrator must read' - Professor Tony Collins
'Meticulously researched book [and] long overdue' - Professor Jean Williams
Headers are thrilling. But football is facing a concussion crisis. Is heading worth it?
Heading the ball is considered as much a part of football as passing, tackling and shooting. Pelé, Cristiano Ronaldo, Robin Van Persie, Abby Wambach - all have executed memorable headers. But the impact can cause lasting damage. Heading for Trouble is an essential exposé on this dynamic yet increasingly controversial skill.
Through new research , Dr Kevin Moore - founding director of the National Football Museum - explores the fascinating history of heading in football and the dangerous, frequently tragic consequences it can cause. Explaining how minor impacts, such as heading, can lead to neurodegenerative brain disease, he highlights the football establishment's inaction and exposes what may be the game's greatest ever scandal.
Heading for Trouble brilliantly brings this urgent issue into sharp focus and explores how football and heading can move forward without such tragic cost to its players.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399428224
ISBN-10: 1399428225
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sport
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399428225
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sport
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Prologue
Introduction: the book I did not want to write
Heading in the game since 1863
Impact on the players
The science develops
The science: heading worse for women players
Football reacts: the English game
Football reacts: FIFA and the global game
Football without heading - a better game?
Epilogue
Introduction: the book I did not want to write
Heading in the game since 1863
Impact on the players
The science develops
The science: heading worse for women players
Football reacts: the English game
Football reacts: FIFA and the global game
Football without heading - a better game?
Epilogue
Recenzii
A hugely important book. A must read for anyone interested in the increasingly compelling evidence that the beautiful game is heading for a crisis if we don't act now.
An urgent warning for football's hidden crisis
A wakeup call ... gives a voice to all those players who entertained millions but are now suffering from conditions related to heading a football ... a book that anyone who loves the game should read!
The concussion crisis is the biggest threat football has ever faced. Kevin Moore analyses the causes of the crisis and suggests practical solutions to protect the beautiful game from itself. This is the book that every fan, player and administrator must read.
In this meticulously researched book, the author gives an overview of the dangers of heading for a range of football players. The nuances that different populations are affected in specific ways adds greatly to our understanding of the issues that now face football's governing bodies, and it is long overdue that we revise the Laws of the Game.
An important and insightful work and book that will help us appreciate the long-term effects of heading the ball in football especially in children and youth football. Football as a global culture of humankind should evolve with science and humankind. This book will help instigate discussions on a global platform on how we can remove heading from football and even make the game better. I strongly recommend it to every fan who loves football.
In this meticulously researched and hard-hitting book, Kevin Moore examines the existential crisis facing football. Heading has been a fundamental part of the game since its invention, but can it survive the spectre of brain damage among former players and the threat of this horrible disease hanging over the current generation? How will the football authorities act to limit the damage? More crucially, will they act? This book not only poses these questions but, in order to shake the sport out of its complacency over this public health crisis, it puts forward solutions.'
Football's 'elephant in the room' is finally disclosed. Some may say that heading the ball is intrinsic to the balletic quality of the 'beautiful game', but the injurious dangers for a player putting head to a fast moving ball are becoming undeniable. In this provocative, and essential, book, Dr Kevin Moore, sport historian and founding Director of England's National Football Museum, makes the compelling case for rule changes to limit heading to be taken seriously. It is time for football's ruling bodies, from the peak to local levels, to face up to the urgent responsibility for reform.
A hugely important book which will help raise awareness of the hidden risks of heading footballs while exploring a better future where brain trauma is no longer an acceptable 'occupational hazard' for footballers.
For the 250 to 270 million people around the world who play football regularly, this may be the single most important book they will ever read - and they should read it as soon as possible.
An urgent warning for football's hidden crisis
A wakeup call ... gives a voice to all those players who entertained millions but are now suffering from conditions related to heading a football ... a book that anyone who loves the game should read!
The concussion crisis is the biggest threat football has ever faced. Kevin Moore analyses the causes of the crisis and suggests practical solutions to protect the beautiful game from itself. This is the book that every fan, player and administrator must read.
In this meticulously researched book, the author gives an overview of the dangers of heading for a range of football players. The nuances that different populations are affected in specific ways adds greatly to our understanding of the issues that now face football's governing bodies, and it is long overdue that we revise the Laws of the Game.
An important and insightful work and book that will help us appreciate the long-term effects of heading the ball in football especially in children and youth football. Football as a global culture of humankind should evolve with science and humankind. This book will help instigate discussions on a global platform on how we can remove heading from football and even make the game better. I strongly recommend it to every fan who loves football.
In this meticulously researched and hard-hitting book, Kevin Moore examines the existential crisis facing football. Heading has been a fundamental part of the game since its invention, but can it survive the spectre of brain damage among former players and the threat of this horrible disease hanging over the current generation? How will the football authorities act to limit the damage? More crucially, will they act? This book not only poses these questions but, in order to shake the sport out of its complacency over this public health crisis, it puts forward solutions.'
Football's 'elephant in the room' is finally disclosed. Some may say that heading the ball is intrinsic to the balletic quality of the 'beautiful game', but the injurious dangers for a player putting head to a fast moving ball are becoming undeniable. In this provocative, and essential, book, Dr Kevin Moore, sport historian and founding Director of England's National Football Museum, makes the compelling case for rule changes to limit heading to be taken seriously. It is time for football's ruling bodies, from the peak to local levels, to face up to the urgent responsibility for reform.
A hugely important book which will help raise awareness of the hidden risks of heading footballs while exploring a better future where brain trauma is no longer an acceptable 'occupational hazard' for footballers.
For the 250 to 270 million people around the world who play football regularly, this may be the single most important book they will ever read - and they should read it as soon as possible.