‘I don't think it would destroy the enjoyment of kids' football’England's 1966 World Cup hat-trick hero Geoff Hurst says children should be banned from heading the ball due to so many of his generation suffering from dementia. Hurst is one of only four members of the side still alive — Bobby Charlton, George Cohen and Roger Hunt being the others. “There seems to be a particular group of people who were suffering,” Hurst told the Daily Mirror on Wednesday. “I go back to my practice days at West Ham, we had a ball hanging from the ceiling, we would head it for 20 minutes. “I think stopping at that young age, when the brain has not matured, must be looked at.

Source: The Hindu November 18, 2020 17:19 UTC