Heart attack threat from penalty shoot-outs
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Heart attack threat from penalty shoot-outs
Argentina celebrate victory over England after David Batty's penalty miss in the 1998 World Cup in France.
New research suggests that penalty shoot-outs in football matches increase the risk of heart attacks.
The number of hospital admissions for heart attacks was found to increase by 25% when England lost to Argentina in a penalty competition at the 1998 World Cup.
A key factor, according to researchers, was the intense rivalry generated by matches between England and Argentina, and the fact it was a knock-out game.
Professor Douglas Carroll, of the University of Birmingham, hoped his findings might persuade football authorities to scrap the penalty shoot-out as a way to resolve key matches.
"The majority of football fans I know do not like penalty shoot-outs, and so given there is provisional health evidence that they might not be the greatest thing either, perhaps they ought to look for an alternative solution," he told BBC News Online.
Not coke-fuelled sex with exuberant hookers then?
Has anyone else read this. Why is this getting any attention at all?
As Joe Jackson said in Night and Day "Everything, everything.... Gives you cancer, There's no cure, there's no answer"
Doing anything could give you a heartattack....but then... so could doing nothing. Ack, l've just figured out the most life threatening condition there is: being alive!
Argentina celebrate victory over England after David Batty's penalty miss in the 1998 World Cup in France.
New research suggests that penalty shoot-outs in football matches increase the risk of heart attacks.
The number of hospital admissions for heart attacks was found to increase by 25% when England lost to Argentina in a penalty competition at the 1998 World Cup.
A key factor, according to researchers, was the intense rivalry generated by matches between England and Argentina, and the fact it was a knock-out game.
Professor Douglas Carroll, of the University of Birmingham, hoped his findings might persuade football authorities to scrap the penalty shoot-out as a way to resolve key matches.
"The majority of football fans I know do not like penalty shoot-outs, and so given there is provisional health evidence that they might not be the greatest thing either, perhaps they ought to look for an alternative solution," he told BBC News Online.
Not coke-fuelled sex with exuberant hookers then?
Has anyone else read this. Why is this getting any attention at all?
As Joe Jackson said in Night and Day "Everything, everything.... Gives you cancer, There's no cure, there's no answer"
Doing anything could give you a heartattack....but then... so could doing nothing. Ack, l've just figured out the most life threatening condition there is: being alive!
because theres Alcohol,Tvr's, my french bird, and porn.
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