Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
When i used to train we would do heading drills (not that kind) which would consist of someone throwing a ball up and you heading the ball back to them as you moved down the pitch, this would be repeated 20 times x 3. Terry Boyle would go out after training and get the young lads to ping it, sit it up etc 50 times and he'd just practice his clearance heading. Crazy when you think of it. Things are changing though. Pre season training would consist of three or four 7 mile runs per week up hills and mountains and on terrain that didn't suit a footballers ankles and knees. There wasn't a bleep test back then, if there was then plenty of players would've pissed it, although conditioning didn't exist.
At one point this season City had 11 players on the injury list. Newcastle have the same currently. Arsenal 6 or 7. It's funny how with all this scientific training and diets the modern footballer is much more likely to get injured training than in the bad old days..