Heading for Trouble: Football’s Head Impact Crisis — And How We Save the Game
Autor Kevin Mooreen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 oct 2026
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'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
Descriere
AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW
'A hugely important book' - Sam Peters, author of Concussed
'Kevin Moore poses the right questions about football's biggest issue in this hugely insightful and accessible book' - Jeremy Wilson, Chief Sports Reporter, The Telegraph
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.
'A hugely important book' - Sam Peters, author of Concussed
'Kevin Moore poses the right questions about football's biggest issue in this hugely insightful and accessible book' - Jeremy Wilson, Chief Sports Reporter, The Telegraph
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.
Cuprins
Prologue
Introduction
1. Football not headball
2. Heading kills: stories from the men's game
3. The science of heading
4. Equality in brain damage? Women players and heading
5. Children and heading: the shocking truth
6.Clubs, leagues and football's head impact crisis
7. The FA and head impacts
8. 'Ref, is this the final?' The role of FIFA
9. IFAB: the lawmakers
10. How we save the game: the options
11. How we save the game: a personal view
References and additional sources
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Football not headball
2. Heading kills: stories from the men's game
3. The science of heading
4. Equality in brain damage? Women players and heading
5. Children and heading: the shocking truth
6.Clubs, leagues and football's head impact crisis
7. The FA and head impacts
8. 'Ref, is this the final?' The role of FIFA
9. IFAB: the lawmakers
10. How we save the game: the options
11. How we save the game: a personal view
References and additional sources
Acknowledgements
Recenzii
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.
Football has a lot skeletons in its closet, but none more scary than the long, sorry history of concussion. brain damage and heading. Is it possible to imagine the game without headers? Is it possible to just go on when so many players are suffering so badly from the damage caused? Kevin Moore has served us all well by weighing the evidence, telling the stories and asking the really difficult questions about what the game should do and how it might change.
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.
Kevin Moore poses the right questions about football's biggest issue in this hugely insightful, important and accessible book. Whether the football authorities can find the answers will reveal just how much it really cares for its former heroes and future generations.
A book that needed to be written, even if its truths are uncomfortable for those of us who love a bullet header. Powerful and poignant on matters up to now, it also offers considered recommendations about what should happen next. A vital read.
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.
This book asks all the difficult questions football should be asking itself
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.
Kevin's analysis around football's greatest player welfare challenge, a subject very close to my heart, is both brilliantly researched, wonderfully written and incredibly thought provoking.
It turns out that repeatedly heading the ball is a lot like repeatedly refusing to learn from history. If you must head the ball, then you must also read this book.
A timely study of the head impact crisis in modern football. As provocative as it is thoughtful, and radical as it is scholarly, the book documents how the game got to where it is and offers solutions for how it might yet save itself. Kevin Moore is an excellent guide through the history, the science and the bureaucracy, soberly weighing up the evidence and yet unafraid to name those who have failed to act.
A timely, meticulously researched book, on an inconvenient truth that football has ignored for far too long.
A meticulously researched and expertly conveyed exploration of the risks linked to repetitive heading in soccer. This is thoughtful, evidence-based reading that offers a genuine and constructive path forward for player safety at every level of the game.
Kevin Moore has written with scientific authority, humility for the game we treasure and a deep ethical responsibility against human suffering, to expose how football has failed its players for decades, and how it has no choice but to urgently evolve into a safer and smarter game.
Football has a lot skeletons in its closet, but none more scary than the long, sorry history of concussion. brain damage and heading. Is it possible to imagine the game without headers? Is it possible to just go on when so many players are suffering so badly from the damage caused? Kevin Moore has served us all well by weighing the evidence, telling the stories and asking the really difficult questions about what the game should do and how it might change.
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.
Kevin Moore poses the right questions about football's biggest issue in this hugely insightful, important and accessible book. Whether the football authorities can find the answers will reveal just how much it really cares for its former heroes and future generations.
A book that needed to be written, even if its truths are uncomfortable for those of us who love a bullet header. Powerful and poignant on matters up to now, it also offers considered recommendations about what should happen next. A vital read.
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.
This book asks all the difficult questions football should be asking itself
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.
Kevin's analysis around football's greatest player welfare challenge, a subject very close to my heart, is both brilliantly researched, wonderfully written and incredibly thought provoking.
It turns out that repeatedly heading the ball is a lot like repeatedly refusing to learn from history. If you must head the ball, then you must also read this book.
A timely study of the head impact crisis in modern football. As provocative as it is thoughtful, and radical as it is scholarly, the book documents how the game got to where it is and offers solutions for how it might yet save itself. Kevin Moore is an excellent guide through the history, the science and the bureaucracy, soberly weighing up the evidence and yet unafraid to name those who have failed to act.
A timely, meticulously researched book, on an inconvenient truth that football has ignored for far too long.
A meticulously researched and expertly conveyed exploration of the risks linked to repetitive heading in soccer. This is thoughtful, evidence-based reading that offers a genuine and constructive path forward for player safety at every level of the game.
Kevin Moore has written with scientific authority, humility for the game we treasure and a deep ethical responsibility against human suffering, to expose how football has failed its players for decades, and how it has no choice but to urgently evolve into a safer and smarter game.
Notă biografică
Dr Kevin Moore is the founding director of the National Football Museum and now serves in a research capacity at the Museum. He is on the editorial board of the world-leading academic journal for football, Soccer and Society, and holds key roles at the International Football Institute, the Chinese Football Museum and Indian Sports Museum. @doctorkevinmoo1