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Fine strike from GTF a couple of weeks ago. One of the main benefits of scoring a 30 yarder is it's a shorter distance to jog back to the centre circle for the restart.

 

Speaking of GTF, Tranmere also signed Steve McNulty recently the only pro footballer fatter than GTF.

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Maybe the best place to put this

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/35612549

The last section is about Peter Taylor's love affair with Junior Lewis.

I said in the Matt Piper thread that Taylor wanting to get rid of Piper at 18 said all you neede to know about how poor he was.

But replacing Neil Lennon with Junior Lewis has to be one of the worst bits of business by any football manager in top flight history.

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Rangers' Martyn Waghorn is brought down at Rugby Park

 

A LEADING football club physio has urged players to bin boots with blades on plastic pitches.

Airdrieonians medical man Michael McLaughlan insists wearing them on artificial surfaces is a recipe for disaster.

The 45-year-old spoke out after seeing pictures last week of injured Rangers star Martyn Waghorn wearing bladed boots at Kilmarnock's Rugby Park.

And he insists: “I’m absolutely gobsmacked that players are still taking this kind of risk.”

McLaughlan, who carried out an extensive study into the dangers of boots with blades a decade ago, has seen first-hand the damage which can be done.

He was unable to comment specifically on the nature of Waghorn's injury which Ibrox chief Mark Warburton said was at least, in part, down to the pitch.

But the Scottish Ambulance Service paramedic says footballers are playing Russian roulette with their health – and reckons some of them are more interested in looking good than staying safe.

McLaughlan, who has campaigned on the issue for years, said: “A player’s whole week is about fitness, sports nutrition, sports science and making them the best athlete they can be.

 


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Martyn Waghorn holds his knee after the injury

 

“But yet there doesn’t seem to be the same attention paid to the most important thing – footwear. You play football with your feet.

“I’m concerned that players are wearing blades on that [artificial] kind of surface.

“Players need to know, from grassroots level right up to the professionals, about the dangers.

“The biggest danger is blades getting caught in the turf, which is like a carpet. When you try and rotate to change direction, your foot stays planted.

“Your medial ligaments will go first and then the serious bit, the cruciate, will go.

“I carried out a study and had thousands of pieces of evidence. Manchester United and Arsenal confirmed to me that they had a total ban on blades.

“I’ve been trying my level-best to make kids aware of the dangers.

“The adults should know but is it a case of fashion coming before safety?”

 

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