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Ryan Mason: “I have 14 metal plates in my skull, with 28 screws holding them in place, and 45 staples. And I was a lucky boy”

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Ryan Mason was part of the same Tottenham academy generation as Harry Kane, but after representing his boyhood team and his country, his life took a different turn – one which left him lucky to be alive at all.

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Reading the article is quite gutting to be honest. He was so unlucky but at the same time he’s lucky to have the life he’s now has.
 
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Hopefully he’ll reach out to the Wolves lad once he’s out of hospital. I remember being moved by Petr Czech spending a few hours with Mason after his incident and thinking fair play Petr. Time to return the favour. Hopefully that wolves lads career isn’t over, though.
 
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A serious debate needs to take place surrounding head injuries in football.

Like F1 with the halo that has forced design change, football should possibly consider using head guards or remove heading from the game completely a long with sliding tackles.
 
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double0 said:
A serious debate needs to take place surrounding head injuries in football.

Like F1 with the halo that has forced design change, football should possibly consider using head guards or remove heading from the game completely a long with sliding tackles.
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I can’t go along with this. Head guards maybe but not keen. I’d stop watching football all together if slide tackling was banned.
 
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double0 said:
A serious debate needs to take place surrounding head injuries in football.

Like F1 with the halo that has forced design change, football should possibly consider using head guards or remove heading from the game completely a long with sliding tackles.
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Honestly this sort of thing rarely ever happens and a serious head injury could happen in many sports. A head guard doesn't make a difference to concussion which is the biggest problem in head injuries. Mason was just really unfortunate to have received a head injury in that part of the skull with that force. I don't think there's much to be done other than this precaution of bringing a player off when they get a bad head injury (the new sub rule for that should come into the premier league in Jan alongside the EFL). Banning heading for kids would make sense though. The ball is a lot lighter now so the problems that older players have had shouldn't happen so much in future.
 
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Sobering article.

Did we ever find out what this was about? "But then I came back for pre-season and a few things happened – the kind of things that happen in football, nothing to do with the manager – that I couldn’t really accept or move past."
 
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Sobering article.

Did we ever find out what this was about? "But then I came back for pre-season and a few things happened – the kind of things that happen in football, nothing to do with the manager – that I couldn’t really accept or move past."
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not that I am aware of.
 
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