This is a cheery subject as we approach the New Year but depression in football is more widespread than you might think. Unfortunately, it is not something that can be cured with a magic sponge from the physio when he runs on with his physio supplies.
Every recent England manager calls for the FA to bring in a winter break. Yet the bean counters at football clubs know that the Christmas period is an extremely profitable one. The turnstiles ring on Boxing Day as people decide to watch a bit of footy to get over their Xmas over indulgence.
So “Wiggo” did it and took the coveted Sports Personality of the Year award. He got over a third of the votes from the public with Jessica Ennis and Andy Murray trailing in the cyclists wake as he pedalled away to take the trophy with ease.
“I bought my Latin-American manager a Vauxhall – I got my boss a Nova.” Tim Vine
With the new millennium less than a week away on Boxing Day 1999 Chelsea put out a team that contained no British players. Their Italian manger chose a team that had nine different nationalities but not one player came from these shores.
Research from the University of Edinburgh and the University of California has found that exercise by the over 70s can prevent dementia. They found that older people that stayed active avoided the kind of memory loss problems that can affect people as they enter old age.
Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers uses “a bit of gip in the old knee” to distract people and to change the subject when he is in a bit of bother. People with real knee pain know how debilitating it can be and how it can stop them doing the exercises they want to do.
Recently, we saw a Leeds fan rush on the pitch and punch Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Chris Kirkland. The keeper was laid flat out by the hit and needed help from the physio with his good old physio supplies to get him back on his feet.
The BBC has now announced the twelve people that are to fight it out for Sports Personality of the Year 2012. It is not surprising that the list is dominated by Olympians and Paralympians. They have, of course, dominated the sporting year.
“I caught an infection at my karate class. It was kung flu.” Tim Vine
At the Olympics we all got involved with sports that perhaps we had never come across before. We would certainly not usually watch Judo or Taekwondo but during the magical summer of 2012 we did.
In the old days before FIFA13 and PES 2013 boys and some girls had to pretend to be their favourite football stars while kicking a ball in the back garden. Men, and perhaps some women, of a certain age will remember playing Subbuteo with their mates.
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