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Tuesday 9 May 2006
Current debate
Are Football Injuries more common than they have been in the past, and is it the new boot design that is to blame?



When David Beckham broke his metatarsal in the lead up to the last world cup in Japan and Korea 2002, few football fans had heard of the tiny bones in a players foot. Now as the World Cup in Germany looms, it appears that most English football fans have a very painful knowledge of these bones. With Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney recovering, the question to be answered is whether it is the boots are to blame for the number of injuries experienced by English footballers.


If Rooney makes a swift recovery he may be able to play in some of the World Cup matches. Whether he will be fighting fit is doubtful. Becham claimed that though he managed to come back and play in the last world cup he was no where near ready, in fact he played through the pain in order to compete and his performance was hampered.


Rooney was wearing Nike Total 90 Supremacy boots. He wore them for the first time on the day he had the injury. Nike denies its boots are linked to a higher risk of injury. Which is to be expected, it would be interesting to see whether sales of these boots meet projections over the next few months, or whether consumers will make the link.


Tom Docherty, a former Manchester United manager (famed for wearing sheep skin coats), said to the Manchester Evening news that his wife, a physiotherapist, thinks the boots are to blame.


Docherty said that when he was a professional football player in the 1950s it used to take six weeks to break a pair of boots in. Players used to have to put them in a bucket of water. He added that balls are much lighter now and the pitches are in much better condition. Docherty believes the modern boot does not support the foot properly.


Gary Neville and Roy Keane have also suffered broken metatarsal. When football pitches were not so good in the 70s and 80s hernias were the most common injuries. Some ex-footballers say modern boots are like slippers.


Tony Book, an ex-professional footballer, told the Manchester Evening News he believes the name of the injury has changed. He believes the old ‘broken toe' injury is now reported as ‘fractured/broken metatarsal'.


Others say it is the media attention, or the faster pace of modern football.


For most people there seems to be no doubt that the modern boot is to blame.

For information, a medical web site explains that there are 5 Metatarsal Bones (in the foot)

-- The First Metatarsal Bone
Os metatarsale I; metatarsal bone of the great toe
The thickest and shortest one.

-- The Second Metatarsal Bone
Os metatarsale II
The longest one
David Beckham's injury in 2002

-- The third metatarsal bone
Os metatarsale III

-- The fourth metatarsal bone
Os metatarsale IV
Wayne Rooney's current injury

-- The fifth metatarsal bone
Os metatarsale V
Wayne Rooney's injury in 2004

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Posted by thewiseone,Tuesday 9 May 2006
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