Waking up this morning, as is the usual start to my day, I clicked on to Vital Luton Town to see if all was well.
It is a ritual I’ve adopted on a regular basis during my 11-year tenure as the editor.
Lurking in the comments section was the following post left by a regular and much valued visitor to our site, Alan:
The post got me thinking!
As a youngster I used to watch most sports and often enjoyed the thrill of the likes of Seb Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram smashing records on the athletics track.
But I can also remember the trio picking up injuries and disorders the likes of which you and me would never experience.
It got me thinking, as an inquisitive teenager, if being so fit left you open to niggling injuries etc.
Some 40-years later, with several football clubs being affected by niggling, persistent injuries, I’m still pondering whether my teenage theory was true.
Footballers, in the modern age, are the fittest and most regulated they’ve ever been, the science of fitness is practised on a daily basis, it is far different to the 1960’s and 1970’s when there used to be a plethora players who played in every game of the season, something that is a rarity these days.
Continuing down the list of comments made in the last few hours, I saw that another regular visitor to this site, Chris, had also left a post on the subject of injuries / fitness:
