Premier League players are returning to pre-season training with no restrictions on heading footballs implemented despite concerns over neurological problems later in life.
Football’s authorities promised guidelines for heading in training at professional and adult levels. The Premier League say they still expect limits to be implemented ahead of the start of the 2021-22 season next month.
It follows a mouthguard study using Liverpool and Manchester City’s youth and women’s sides last season which looked at the forces involved in heading and the impact on the brain.
No heading limits have yet been brought in place in training for the Premier League
Players have returned to training over the past week ahead of the new season next month
That study is now complete and the data — described as ‘extremely exciting’ and ‘very interesting’ by someone closely involved — has been passed to football’s key decision-makers.