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‘This is really disappointing’: Chris Sutton takes aim at £146,000-a-week Tottenham man
Chrဣis Sutton has taken to Twitter to criticise Nuno Espirito Santo, after he admitt♓ed to ignoring the heading limit guidelines at Tottenham.
What’s the story?
Well, Nuno probably shouldn’꧙t have owned up to th𒉰is.
Amid links to neurodegenerative diseases, clubs hav♛e been♍ advised not to exceed ten high-force headers a week.
When asked about defending set-pieces, the quote Nuno as saying: “Honestly, I will not lie to you, I don’t count how many times our players head the ball. Maybe 🔜I will get myself in trouble for this, but football is jumping, heading, it’s part of the game.”
Clearly, the Celtic legend is liꦰvid with the Spurs man.
In fairness to Tottenham and Nuno…
F𓂃or the record, we aren’t disagreeing with Sutton here, nor are we playing down links to neurodegenerative diseases in football.
It’s a major issue, and many ex-footballers have suffe♊red from dementia.
Joe Kinnear is one who is currℱently struggling, while Nobby Styles, Jack Charlton, Ray Wilson and Martin Peters have all died after suffering from it.
We feel what Nuno is trying to say is that it’s extremely tough to kee🤡p a limit of these kind of things in football – headers are often an instinct.
For example, if a whipped cross is flying towards Harry Kane at Hotspur Way with ಌplenty of pace on it, is it going to register in his mind𝓀 that he should leave it?
Of course no🐼t – naturally, Kane, and many other players, are going to powerfully head it towards g🍨oal. Over and over again.
In ourꦯ view, protective headgear should come in if measures are to be taken, rather than informing clubs to have heading limits.
Clearly, v🎀ery few clubs are taking ⛎the restriction seriously.