Young footballers banned from copying Jack Grealish as worrying development emerges
Young footballers are being banned from carrying Jack Grealish-style mini shin pads.
Parents have been instructed that junior gamers can’t put on the tiny guards as “they do not offer sufficient protection”. Despite being made fashionable by gamers corresponding to Manchester City’s Grealish, 28, Whitley Bay FC Junior in Tyne-side stated the package bag staples wouldn’t be accepted on match days.
Team bosses wrote: “Please be advised that the club does not accept these as sufficient protection and requires all players to wear full-size shin pads.” Andy Clarke, coach of Colchester Villa Youth FC in Essex, has additionally kicked out the shin guards as they add “very little protection”.
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FA tips state all shin pads should “provide reasonable protection” – however don’t specify a minimal dimension. Grealish’s shinpads have been a supply of fixed curiosity since his first broke into the crew at Aston Villa.
Now at Manchester City, the £100million man beforehand defined simply why his shinpads are so small. He stated: “Obviously your socks are supposed to go above your calves.
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“But one year when I was here [Aston Villa], the socks once shrunk in the wash. So they wouldn’t go higher. “That season, I ended up taking part in rather well. So it turned a superstitious factor for me. I assumed ‘I’m going to maintain doing this as a result of I’ve completed nicely’.”
That helped to dispel an earlier theory that Grealish had watched footage of George Best going past defenders with his socks round his ankles and wanted to copy the Manchester United legend.
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“A lot of people say that it’s because of George Best,” Grealish stated. “While I love him and admire so much what he did, that isn’t the reason.”
