Post by steve on Mar 20, 2018 5:39:21 GMT 1
MAYBE WE SHOULD STICK WITH OUR CURRENT PLAYING SURFACE
An article from the Telegraph:-
A former National Health Service chief on Monday night begged the Government to ban the construction of artificial pitches in the UK following the tragic death of his son whose cancer he fears was caused by playing on them.
Nigel Maguire spoke of his devastation on Monday at losing son Lewis just a month after the 20-year-old had declared he had won his four-year battle against Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
An aspiring goalkeeper who fell ill halfway through a trial at Leeds United in 2013, Lewis trained and played for five years on 3G pitches covered in rubber pellets made from old car tyres containing toxic chemicals mercury, lead, benzene and arsenic.
He would frequently swallow those pellets when diving for the ball or find them lodged in grazes, something he and his father – an ex-nurse who quit as chief executive of NHS Cumbria after Lewis was diagnosed – feared caused his cancer.
His father wrote to the Government more than a year ago urging it to order an “immediate moratorium” on the building of 3G crumb rubber pitches, while also lobbying the Football Association and Rugby Football Union to do the same.
An article from the Telegraph:-
A former National Health Service chief on Monday night begged the Government to ban the construction of artificial pitches in the UK following the tragic death of his son whose cancer he fears was caused by playing on them.
Nigel Maguire spoke of his devastation on Monday at losing son Lewis just a month after the 20-year-old had declared he had won his four-year battle against Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
An aspiring goalkeeper who fell ill halfway through a trial at Leeds United in 2013, Lewis trained and played for five years on 3G pitches covered in rubber pellets made from old car tyres containing toxic chemicals mercury, lead, benzene and arsenic.
He would frequently swallow those pellets when diving for the ball or find them lodged in grazes, something he and his father – an ex-nurse who quit as chief executive of NHS Cumbria after Lewis was diagnosed – feared caused his cancer.
His father wrote to the Government more than a year ago urging it to order an “immediate moratorium” on the building of 3G crumb rubber pitches, while also lobbying the Football Association and Rugby Football Union to do the same.
