RedFox Blog: Sporting Insights
Post 839 7/5/21
Next month sees the much delayed Euro 2020 tournament take place. And as ever we talk about fitness every Friday. Sport is fitness because if you are not fit then at selection for a team and you are under par then you will not get selected. Many top football players have to have a medical examination before they can play for that club. It is no good on trying to get passed this. Then there are the long grueling training sessions and the long hours in the gym lifting weights so that you can sustain long running sessions on the pitch. Its no good not having muscles as an elite athlete.
And footballers like Olympic athlete’s and Boxers have to be very fit. Training is all important and so is health. Many footballers end up on the bench because they have failed fitness tests and cannot be selected to first out on the pitch. That is why after many years playing elite sport you have to retire at such an early stage in your life because of the many injuries playing elite sport. And there is no fullback. Once you have to retire then your income is nil! But if you do not pick up any injuries then you can play until you feel you need to retire. Fitness is everything!
Security Is Everything 8/5/21
The European Champions league final at the end of this month. And then the European Championships next month will mean a stepping up of security. After many famous sporting bombings and the ever present Manchester Arena Bombing. Security will be beefed up for everything. One of the more high profile hits would be if crowds attending just one of these events gets bombed then there will be horrified scenes. And then questions would be asked on what security precautions was arranged. And then at the start of June there is the G7 summit here in the UK.
You cannot block any terror attack but you can reduce the risk. Heavy security even though it is criticized is a must as the ordinary police force has to deal with many more civilian incidents. But! there is a huge profile when something or an famous event is attacked. Any determined terrorist would always get through. So security has to be very heavy for any event. High profile or not. But football to tournaments or any other kind of tournament is a difficult place to police and keep out a suspect. So! all we have to do is pray that we have everything covered.