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Heading a football has '80% power of a boxing punch', research shows

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ITV, saying: "The ball we used in our research is the modern ball at the current speed that it goes. READ MORE:Tyson Fury already lumps bet on what round he will knock Oleksandr Usyk out in"We show that the modern ball disrupts the brain and when we put an impact sensor on the people in our lab it showed that the impact of the ball during heading is 80 per cent of a boxing punch."Boxers can't get a licence to start competing as junior boxers until they are at least 15 years old.

Before that age they can compete in heavily regulated skills bouts. Junior boxers are also heavily protected, with head guards and heavy gloves mandatory in order to minimise their impact on an opponent.Should heading a football be more heavily regulated in football?

Have your views heard in the comments sectionHowever, junior football sides can start heading the ball from a young age with the FA currently trialing removing heading from competitive football for under-12 and younger age categories.

Campaigner John Stiles, whose dad World Cup winner Nobby Stiles suffered dementia, questioned this.He said: "Does your brain suddenly get stronger when they get to 12?

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