Fraser Forster has missed the last two games with a neck injury, which Neil Lennon suggested could have been sustained as a result of sleeping on an unfamiliar pillow in Spain last week. Fraser has been treated by a chiropractor but it might be a few games before he is back between the posts.
This is a known phenomenon. As well as bikes, spare tyres and pumps the GB Olympic cycling team make sure that each cyclist brings their own orthopaedic pillow on each journey. Olympic cyclists, like professional footballers, are finely tuned athletes who stress their bodies each day. Muscles are continually bashed and stretched making their bodies especially vulnerable a whole range of ailments.
The GB Olympic cycle team also used heated trousers. To be best of my knowledge velodromes are not particularly cold but as much as any type of athlete, cyclists require their leg muscles to go from rest to full throttle in an instant. Warm muscles are less prone to hamstring, calf, rolled ankle and ligament damage.
Did all this fine tuning get them anywhere? GB cyclists won 7 out of 10 gold medals available to them, so they are doing something right. Jock Stein was the first British manager to take food with the team when they played away in Europe, soon everyone was doing it. The need to find ways of ensuring Celtic are as well prepared as possible for every training session and game remains just as important.
Orthopaedic pillows and 20 minutes in heated trousers before warm-up would cost less than £1000. They would support neck muscles and potentially reduce our horrendous muscle-injury record. Best practice suggests we look into this.
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this spl is sooooo not exciting
Thegreenfaerie-I regularly played football with a guy who wore tights,and another who wore long johns,in the winter I hasted to add.
I bought a memory pillow but forgot where i put it
Thought i read yday that norwich where returning with 2nd offer .
Did that ever come ?
Tbomthetim
Yes it’s true, I have a sky sports subscription, will be getting cancelled real soon though.
HH
Pail67
Ryan Giggs had problems with recurring hamstring pulls. They found out that it was the car he was driving and changed it.
I have a similar problem with my taxi.
Do you think a sick note from my GP will get me a new top of the range Merc?
keep persevering green faerie – he will feel the shame
the exiled tim
16:02 on
20 January, 2013
Pillows, I bought a couple of them memory pillows in Primark, 10 euros each, best money I have ever spent, they are magic.
Need manure for a nice wee four timer……….
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TER,
So did I. Brought them home but forgot where I put them :))
Bada
That wasn’t robin hood and little john was it
Motherwell 3 St Johnstone 2.
thegreenfaerie
15:59 on 20 January, 2013
Vmhan
I heard that builders wear wummin’s tights under their trousers during the winter, anyone care to clarify?
HH
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Just the ones in high heels;-))
Running about wearing ‘flares’ you could end up in heated trousers
tet primark darlington it is then
You know how the corrupt SFA have been cheating for years to do whatever they can to help their team and practice a shocking anti-Celtic agenda? Are we just going to keep accepting it with no more than an on-line moan or rant in the pub? Are we going to keep paying to support it or are we going to take action to change it? If you want fairness and equality, we are going to have to unite and agree a set objectives then take actual action to achieve it. It isn’t going to change by magic.
thegreenfaerie
16:04 on
20 January, 2013
Tbomthetim
Yes it’s true, I have a sky sports subscription, will be getting cancelled real soon though.
HH
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Good ghirl, you know it makes sense.
Sorry about your son’s “wee problem”.
Still, as long as he’s healthy!
All gone quiet on BDO front
Jackie mac
My son blows himself up to his room when he knows he can’t win the debate, or stomps up the stairs when he goes into a mood! He is 19, ah teenagers, such bliss in our household…
HH
Heated trousers? Maybe more time in the weight room. Can you share any insight on the weight training regimen in Lennoxtown? I have a suspicion that Celtic and Scotland generally are behind the curve in this essential component of athletic training. Like to be ptoven wrong.
If you stood too close to the back wall of the jungle you could get a free pair of heated trousers
Sipsini
You made me laugh out loud! Ha ha!
HH
Defoe should have buried that rebound….offside anyway.
T4
If your son or daughter is a Rangers supporter, it must be traumatic for them to hear that their team is dead. Best just to say that they’ve gone to live on a farm.
Headtheball – they’ve gone to the Big Premier League in the sky!
Wow Fergie’s hooter is really purple today!
T4
Highly temperamental and sexed huberta
I was hoping Mr platini would have stepped in and sorted it all out, was it the only one who had such high hopes? Uefa don’t seem interested, any suggestions?
HH
Paul, you’re right about every little detail being important in competitive sport.
There’s an interesting piece in today’s Sunday Times.The three players with the highest number of average passes per game in the English Premier League are Arteta, Yaya Toure and Michael Carrick. They have one thing in common; they all play in Puma King boots.
Puma claims recent improvements in the design of this classic boot improves touch, feel and control. Makes you think.
Headtheball
………..with all the other animals :0)
HH.
Dodgy pillow’s, heated trousers, wummin’s tights
Man up you lot!!!!!!!
I have just discovered Sevco’s opposition had a player sent off today.
Will this be another “world record”?
you couldn’t give them a red neck with a blow torch
There is an interesting experiment in blog power taking place on TSFM.
The problem with all/most blogs is that of turning emotional thoughts into reasoned action that makes a difference in real life.
It can be done when the objective is charitable and bloggers come from the same group/ club.
However when it comes to matters football and trying to right wrongs, maintaining focus is very very difficult, but that has not stopped the guys behind TSFM trying to find a way to translate ideas/ feelings/views into action.
I suggested a way on there that will be familiar to some CQNers who attended the Open Meetings at St Marys that TSFM decided to pursue and the process is now underway.
The latest blog A Question of Trust (Updated) is now up and those interested in trying to make Scottish football an honest pursuit might want to have a read (but Im having a problem copy pasting the link.)
In brief a resolution containing a number of key points has been drafted and sent to a number of supporter trusts to consider if they agree (partially or fully) and if so to convey their concerns in their own way or using the draft, to their respective clubs to give to the SFA.
There are fundamental flaws in the way Scottish football is governed and unless they are addressed in the coming months the game as a national sport risks being severely diminished to the point of disappearance as supporters of all clubs lose faith in its integrity and stop attending in large enough numbers to pay for full time professionals.
I would be grateful if someone could provide the link whilst I have another go.
RVP. 1-0
Van Persie doing a Henrik tribute act ………nice of him….
The regime that a modern footballer undertakes appears to be light years away from that which his predecessors of the not too distant past were subjected to.
Now we have sports medecine, sports psychology, fitness trainers, goalkeeping coaches, dieticians and even yoga instructors.
… and players earning megabucks!
HH!!
Auldheid,
http://scottishfootballmonitor.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/a-question-of-trust/
http://scottishfootballmonitor.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/a-question-of-trust/#comments
I think thats the item.
For Auldheid
Estorilbhoy
Thanks. Just mastered my phones peculiar copy past functionality myself there but I knew CQN would do the job.
Cheers.
AuldHeid
http://scottishfootballmonitor.wordpress.com/
AuldHeid
You beat me to it!