It seems the footballer wasn’t that nice…

^(Someone had to say it before they lock the thread…)

The new mandatory rule, which will require clubs to report data on age, sex, gender, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation within their organisations, is set to come into force for the start of the 2024-25 season

What?

Why should you be disclosing your gender and sexual orientation to a club so they can report it?

Is this ridiculous or am I missing something?

I want to believe it will be voluntary for the people involved and could choose prefer not to say or something, but still, sounds not right.

I have no doubt that more games and more minutes aren’t helping. But this article is extremely lacking on actual significant data.

Is a 15% one time event, significant in 4 seasons? Was it a trend going up or something? Why only use 4 years and not a longer trend?

I can’t access the data, since the article doesn’t mention it and the linked site only has current data.

The only thing they mention is this:

This season there has been an increase of about 96% for hamstring injuries compared to the last campaign, with 53 incidents - 26 more than during 2022-23.

Overall, it accounts to a 55% increase compared to the previous four-season average. The previous high was 40 hamstring injuries during the 2020-21 season.

Which is more evidence that 1 data point isn’t really useful. We know that 2020-21 had 40, then 2022-2023 had 26, then 2023-2024 has 53… How can you claim anything with data like that?

Lol, surely those ‘competitive’ goals against San Marino, Gibraltar, etc are worth more than friendlies against Brazil, France, etc.

Zidane’s idol Francescoli. Leo’s idol Aimar. Always River.

Leo may not say it, but the way he speaks about that era of River, he clearly reaaaally liked River as a kid.