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If a player gets injured in the ground and calls for help, what would be the most appropriate response?
Who'd be the most appropriate person to go for help?
And how long should the help and consultation continued?
The answers seem pretty obvious.
Unless, you are the manager of a defending champion, who's lagging behind by a goal against a middle tier club in the elite Barclays premier league, in the stoppage time.
Even if that were the case, 9 in 10 managers, wouldn't have complained. After all, the more important and appropriate issue would be to address and physical injury. No goal, no points and no titles are more important than health, well-being or at extremes, life. That's why there's been growing concerns about the injuries incurred during very physical game like football.
When Eden Hazzard (the messiah of Chelsea, perhaps) got injured in a premier league game, Dr. Carneiro and her team rightfully addressed the issue by approaching the player and providing symptomatic treatment. She did not care about what the scoreline was or how that'd affect the game, which is how every team doctor should have done or expects to do. The issue was rightfully resolved, until after the manager of the loosing team started witch-hunting and blamed the physio doctor and her team for wasting time and their ultimate defeat.
What can be more ironical than that?
To make matters worse, the physio team were barred from attending any of the first team's training sessions etc.. Frustration after defeat is a naturally explainable phenomena however, the reactions to failure must have limits.
If, even in the 21st century, in a country like England, where educated professional women in such elite clubs face such horrible aftermaths, there is something very grossly wrong.
Unfortunately, the FA remained silent on this issue. Whether or not, to intervene was within FA's jurisdiction is a separate question, but we, as global citizens, who constantly chatter and advocate about human rights and gender equalities, how can we remain tight lipped about this gross injustice?
I'm with you Dr. Carneiro and i hope, all of global soccer fans are as well.
