The future for pro footballers'

[Brown Nose]

I came across this site and it reports some interesting and quite startling statistics on being a modern footballer.

http://www.xpro.org/research/

80% of former pros develop Osteoarthritis
33% of former pros get divorced within a year of retirement
40% of former pros are declared bankrupt within five years of retirement
141 former players are in the prison system, with 127 of those on drug related offences

 

[Blaarev]

I came across this site and it reports some interesting and quite startling statistics on being a modern footballer.

http://www.xpro.org/research/

80% of former pros develop Osteoarthritis
33% of former pros get divorced within a year of retirement
40% of former pros are declared bankrupt within five years of retirement
141 former players are in the prison system, with 127 of those on drug related offences

Where's Lenny Glover these days?

 

[Cate Fox]

Graham Cross served some time.... fraud I think??

 

[Jeff]

Graham Cross served some time.... fraud I think??

I think he stole money from the post office he ran.

 

[Blaarev]

Graham Cross served some time.... fraud I think??

Was it Alan Woollett who worked as a prison ward? He might have bumped into both of them then.

 

[Motown Fox]

Tommy Williams was, or still is possibly, in the Police force

 

[Blue Maniac]

141 former players are in the prison system, with 127 of those on drug related offences

I'd like to know what these other numbers actually mean. It's not clear what the parameters are. Are these players with distinguished careers? Or does it include several dozen ex-reserve team nobbers who made one sub appearance in the Conference?

 

[Cate Fox]

I think he stole money from the post office he ran.

The Blackbird Road post office I believe. When I worked at Jessops he used to visit every week to collect the export parcels.

 

[Matt_B]

I'd also be interested to know how the osteoporosis figure changes over the coming years due to new sports science technology

 

[Joe_Fox]

These stats, if we can call them stats, need some basis behind them. Define professional and that might help. Until then, meh.

 

[give_us_a_wave]

& how far does the research go back? 5 years? 10? 20? 30? Can't judge anything if we don't know that.

 

[Joe_Fox]

We can't tell anything!

 

[Real Sharapova]

Most of the figures are not actually attributed to any meaningful independent research. Somewhat meaningless, it looks like the sort of " statistics " that papers like the Daily Mail quote as if they are additions to the ten commandments.

 

[Joe_Fox]

67% of all stats are made up on the spot.

 

[tedfoxxx]

67% of all stats are made up on the spot.

82% of people have used that made up stats joke before.

 

[Blue Maniac]

102% of people have used that made up stats joke before.

Corrected for accuracy.

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

Most of the figures are not actually attributed to any meaningful independent research. Somewhat meaningless, it looks like the sort of " statistics " that papers like the Daily Mail quote as if they are additions to the ten commandments.

Just a way of jazzing up a press release about a project to be undertaken researching osteoarthritis. In my day it would have been spun along the lines of 35% of ex-pro footballers open tobacconist's shops and 99% have bandy legs.

Interesting names amongst the owners and associates of XPRO - even Guy Branston from our FNF Hall of Fame is in there.

 

[give_us_a_wave]

In my day it would have been spun along the lines of 35% of ex-pro footballers open tobacconist's shops and 99% have bandy legs.

I do miss the days when you could be sold 20 Benson's & an Exchange & Mart by a former England international.

 

[Real Sharapova]

I do miss the days when you could be sold 20 Benson's & a Jazz Mag by a former England international.

Sorted for you:icon_wink

 

[Brown Nose]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2629958/David-James-bankrupt-Former-England-keeper-skint-despite-earning-20m.html