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[GylfiFerguson]

Yes ive played football, I played every day for about 25 years.

Ive also walked up hills, down hills, to Tesco and Asda.

What I havent done is played top-level football, so I have no idea how easy or hard that would be.

Come back when you have and you can tell us about something thats relevant rather than you walking around Spain once.

I was using Spain as an example.

I've hill walked all over Europe but mainly in the UK for 15 - 20 years so I'm probably in a good position to compare a prolonged period of that activity to football. You do realise that hills/mountains go up the way and are often covered in large rocks and dirt tracks with 100m drops all over the place whereas football pitches are perfectly flat and are manicured to an extent that even Jordan's lady parts would be jealous right?

In fact I'm probably a poor example. I know mountain leaders in Scotland who go up and down this and similar for 6 hours a day every day for months on end in the summer. Not only do they have to care about themselves but they also have to worry about their clients lives which I'm sure is pretty demanding. They are often on not far off minimum wage and often do this for their whole career from 18 to the age of 50+.

I've never heard of one of them complaining or under performing due to being "tired"...

I'm not calling footballers pampered #$@&%*! but I'm not not calling them that either...

 

[Nymzee]

I was using Spain as an example.

I've hill walked all over Europe but mainly in the UK for 15 - 20 years so I'm probably in a good position to compare a prolonged period of that activity to football. You do realise that hills/mountains go up the way and are often covered in large rocks and dirt tracks with 100m drops all over the place whereas football pitches are perfectly flat and are manicured to an extent that even Jordan's lady parts are jealous right?

In fact I'm probably a poor example. I know mountain leaders in Scotland who go up and down this and similar for 6 hours a day every day for months on end in the summer. Not only do they have to care about themselves but they also have to worry about their clients lives which I'm sure is pretty demanding. They are often on not far off minimum wage and often do this for their whole career from 18 to the age of 50+.

I've never heard of one of them complaining or under performing due to being "tired"...

I'm not calling footballers pampered #$@&%*! but I'm not not calling them that either...

What the eff are you talking about you weirdo? Get into the Ale House for hiking chat.

 

[bicycleheader]

I was using Spain as an example.

I've hill walked all over Europe but mainly in the UK for 15 - 20 years so I'm probably in a good position to compare a prolonged period of that activity to football. You do realise that hills/mountains go up the way and are often covered in large rocks and dirt tracks with 100m drops all over the place whereas football pitches are perfectly flat and are manicured to an extent that even Jordan's lady parts would be jealous right?

In fact I'm probably a poor example. I know mountain leaders in Scotland who go up and down this and similar for 6 hours a day every day for months on end in the summer. Not only do they have to care about themselves but they also have to worry about their clients lives which I'm sure is pretty demanding. They are often on not far off minimum wage and often do this for their whole career from 18 to the age of 50+.

I've never heard of one of them complaining or under performing due to being "tired"...

I'm not calling footballers pampered #$@&%*! but I'm not not calling them that either...

Go walk a hill

coming back down is optional

 

[GylfiFerguson]

What the eff are you talking about you weirdo? Get into the Ale House for hiking chat.

Okay I'm pretty new around here and I didn't realise we weren't allowed to compare other sports to football when trying to establish whether the majority of footballers are absolute lightweights or not.

 

[Rob17896]

How do you know he's not? This is the internet.

Because girls like that don

A groundsman with a groundsman....is either a good groundsman or limited.

Particularly if from a long line of groundsmen.

 

[Nymzee]

Okay I'm pretty new around here and I didn't realise we weren't allowed to compare other sports to football when trying to establish whether the majority of footballers are absolute lightweights or not.

Well now you know.

 

[Deleted member 38674]

Okay I'm pretty new around here and I didn't realise we weren't allowed to compare other sports to football when trying to establish whether the majority of footballers are absolute lightweights or not.

It's OK mate, it's just the typical GOT welcome, happens to the best of us, I enjoyed the hiking reference even if I didn't quite agree with it.

 

[Toast]

Okay I'm pretty new around here and I didn't realise we weren't allowed to compare other sports to football when trying to establish whether the majority of footballers are absolute lightweights or not.

I've now got The Proclaimers 500 miles in my head.

Sake.

 

[ProZ]

Get the man a statue.

 

[zebedee]

I've played football. I've played football for amateur teams and my school back in the day.

Have you ever played football and/or hill walked?

I'm not talking about slowly walking up a little hill in the Lakes here. I'm talking banging up full on mountains in the Sierra Nevada.

At the top level a footballer playing a full 90 minutes match will run anywhere between 8–13km. Commonly, midfielders will run the greatest distance.

Over 90 minutes that is eff all.

6 hours in the Sierra Nevada requires way way way more energy.

As for training. You don't train a player who is reporting exhaustion so that they can't perform in their next game so I'm sure how that's hugely relevant here.

I see where your coming in terms of stamina. I went to see on business the developers who write the software and own the rights to the vests worn during training.

My days the stats are something else. Doing 100 percentage bursts are not same however as the above and requires another type of stamina all together which pro footballers require.

Covering miles and miles during 90 minutes I salute them. Injury's are going to happen end of but it's down to the medical and fitness coaches to ensure a proper warm down and close monitoring especially after match days

 

[TonyT65]

Good advice to anyone on here...
Read and learn.... Don't jump in too quick without a measured opinion. The predators are lurking..
On topic tho, a great manager will inspire his players and energy wont be a problem just an excuse.

 

[GylfiFerguson]

Get the man a statue.

Please don't.

I've got a feeling that the nose would be cut off and a toilet seat would be hung over one of the arms pretty quickly.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic statue has nose cut off by vandals

Vandals cut off the nose of a statue of Zlatan Ibrahimovic outside Malmo's stadium in Sweden.

www.bbc.co.uk

Right I'll eff off and stop dragging the thread off topic...

 

[Shevin Keedy]

6 hours in the Sierra Nevada requires way way way more energy.

You should be careful there, it's not the energy that'll sap you, there are still wolves in that part of the world, and bears come to think of it.

 

[PeregrineT]

Was it unfair? The owner seemed in the right to me on this occasion. Players get it too easy nowadays

Considering players arent slaves and their contracts dont just allow you to lock them in a facility for a week, yes, yes it was.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

Please don't.

I've got a feeling that the nose would be cut off and a toilet seat would be hung over one of the arms pretty quickly.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic statue has nose cut off by vandals

Vandals cut off the nose of a statue of Zlatan Ibrahimovic outside Malmo's stadium in Sweden.

www.bbc.co.uk

Right I'll eff off and stop dragging the thread off topic...

Oh Gylfi...