Tyrone Mings

[eamonn]

I’m sick of hearing about ACLs now.

A character even just had one in the novel I was reading this afternoon.

You been nicking Daz's library of football memoirs?

[Tuscans]

Arsenal have lost that Timber kid they just bought with a serious injury now.

Probably just dry rot with Timber.

Well I thought it was funny.

[Mister E]

Arsenal have lost that Timber kid they just bought with a serious injury now.

Probably just dry rot with Timber.

Well I thought it was funny.

you're barking, mate.

[PaulTheVillan]

Did we have this many ACL injuries in the 90's? I only remember a couple.

What's changed? The pitch? The boots? Training?

Gutted for Mings. We're a better team when he's playing

[dave shelley]

Back in the sixties Villa bought a Stoke reserve called John Woodward who hit the ground running and then got injured with what I can only assume was an ACL.  I think he only played twenty-odd games for us in nearly three years.  He was never the same again and was sold.

[kippaxvilla2]

It’s an amazing three ACL’s in a year.

[Hookeysmith]

It’s an amazing three ACL’s in a year.

Who is the other one? (Emi / Ty / ?)

In the older days this sort of injury ended your career - thankfully lots of players come back with todays medical support

[Olneythelonely]

People keep confusing Carlos’ achilles injury with an ACL. Can’t think of the other myself.

[dave shelley]

He might mean the lass from the women's team who did her ACL in an international match for Northern Ireland before the ink was dry on her contract.  I think she's back playing now.

[danno]

Did we have this many ACL injuries in the 90's? I only remember a couple.

What's changed? The pitch? The boots? Training?

Gutted for Mings. We're a better team when he's playing

I think players are fitter now than ever before, and with that their bodies are more at their limits physically. I’m sure players today run far more than in the 90s.

[Somniloquism]

Did we have this many ACL injuries in the 90's? I only remember a couple.

What's changed? The pitch? The boots? Training?

Gutted for Mings. We're a better team when he's playing

The glutton in the Women's game have been blamed by some on the fact they have to wear mens boots rather then specifically designed ones.

As for ACL for men in the past, I suspect most were just called Knee Injuries rather then specific body parts. I don't remember people stating Gazza had an ACL injury for example.

[danno]

Did we have this many ACL injuries in the 90's? I only remember a couple.

What's changed? The pitch? The boots? Training?

Gutted for Mings. We're a better team when he's playing

The glutton in the Women's game have been blamed by some on the fact they have to wear mens boots rather then specifically designed ones.

As for ACL for men in the past, I suspect most were just called Knee Injuries rather then specific body parts. I don't remember people stating Gazza had an ACL injury for example.

It was always “done his cruciate” back then. No idea when it became the abbreviated ACL. Probably an Americanism.

[pauliewalnuts]

As for ACL for men in the past, I suspect most were just called Knee Injuries rather then specific body parts.

Back when men were men and football was proper, you'd just run it off.

[OCD]

I’m sick of hearing about ACLs now.

A character even just had one in the novel I was reading this afternoon.

Funny that a couple of weeks ago people were talking about number of  said injuries in the WSL and drawing conclusions that maybe it's a female  physiology thing and now in space of a week we have had 3 PL male players go down.

3 male footballers compared to the equivalent of a whole World Cup squad in the women's game.

Caught part of a news feature on ACLs in the women's games, and apparently there are physiological reasons why there have been so many female footballers suffering them.

There’s a suspicion that football boots are designed for male physiology and not female so may need to be redesigned. I’d imagine there’s some proper musculoskeletal research that needs to be done.

There's been a few reasons suggested but they're unlikely to know until it's studied properly. I've seen suggestions like the menstrual cycle weaking joints during the follicular phase, to women not doing the same amount of strength training as men, to them wearing men's football boots and so it goes on. There's not a definitive answer right now.

[usav]

Did we have this many ACL injuries in the 90's? I only remember a couple.

What's changed? The pitch? The boots? Training?

Gutted for Mings. We're a better team when he's playing

The glutton in the Women's game have been blamed by some on the fact they have to wear mens boots rather then specifically designed ones.

As for ACL for men in the past, I suspect most were just called Knee Injuries rather then specific body parts. I don't remember people stating Gazza had an ACL injury for example.

It was always “done his cruciate” back then. No idea when it became the abbreviated ACL. Probably an Americanism.

For a start, there is more than one "cruciate" so let's start with people being lazy or ill-informed rather than blaming any one group.