1.) 11 Oct 2022
11 Oct 2022 12:23:29
With the Qatari's buying up stakes in other European clubs and rumours of Sampdoria next, does conflict of interests not kick in or is it because they are not majority share holders?

Likewise with the City group owning multiple European teams. It's safe to say they don't want Palermo to do well because if they ever made it into Europe, they'd be breaking the rules.

The future generations will be supporting football groups instead of clubs.

2.) 11 Oct 2022
11 Oct 2022 19:06:45
Obviously its gutting for Enock Mwepu to have to retire at the age of 24. However what I can't get my head around is how it wasn't picked up before. Both RB Salzburg and Brighton a big enough clubs you'd have thought to perform pretty extensive medicals. How on earth has this gone unnoticed until now. Thank god it was picked up on as the last thing anyone wants is another Fabrice Muamba situation playing out before our eyes.

Hopefully he gets the support he'll need and that the football family are able to keep him in the game in some form if that is what he wishes.

3.) 12 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 08:00:21
Shappy, not all conditions are able to be picked up immediately from a medical point of view.

4.) 12 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 09:03:12
I get that RedWhiskey, but this is a hereditary condition. You'd think that was something they'd have been specifically looking for.

Hereditary conditions are by their very nature tied up in our genes.

You can test for them when a child is born to see if the gene that causes the condition is present and "active" in the child.

So I don't buy that they couldn't have tested for it or found it sooner if they were looking for it.

{Ed001's Note - wow you really have no idea mate. There are so many incredibly rare conditions, it is very hard to test for them all. And they do not always show up in testing anyway.}

5.) 12 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 12:31:57
I've had genetic testing performed on me. I'm very aware of how it works.

Hereditary conditions are expressed though your genes.

You can test for them and they will always show up. There is something like a 99.9% success rate with diagnosis of them.


It's as straight forward as is the gene present and if so is it dormant or active.

What I will concede is that unless you are looking for that specific gene or genes then it won't be picked up.

What's unusual is that hereditary conditions within a family are typically known about in my experience, this why I have been tested, so can be tested for.

I'm just saying that I find it slightly strange that several clubs have been prepared to spend significant sums of money and pay wages and agents fees etc, without testing for a possible condition that could end a players career.

Especially given its hereditary so the player and the family are likely to know that the condition is within the family.

6.) 12 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 13:27:37
Just because it's a hereditary co dictionary doesn't mean it's been discovered in the family history before. Obviously it's been discovered now in Enock, but without knowing the family medical history and having no knowledge of the state of Zambian health care there is probably a decent chance it wasn't known about In the family.

Secondly, I highly doubt it would be practical to test for everything especially an unknown rare hereditary condition. And in the 10s of thousands of professional footballers worldwide ( which i admit is a wild guesstimate) just how many does something like this affect?

It probably isn't practical or reasonable to test for everything, it's described only as rare hereditary heart condition. Sometimes there isn't anything practically that could have been done. One would assume there had never previously been any warning signs until whatever caused this incident. Sometimes in life the 1 in a million chance thing has to happen and you just have to accept it for what it is.

I feel for the lad and hope him and his family are all OK but I am not going to criticise the clubs involved for what may well be at this time a unique occurrence.

I don't know if any footballer has ever had there career curtailed by this specific condition at this time to think any deeper on it.

7.) 12 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 14:12:45
So he's now a medical professional.

8.) 12 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 17:08:49
Who needs doctors when you can get diagnosed and sorted on soshul meedja ?.

9.) 13 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 16:15:03
Shappy, i'm a medical doctor in the NHS.

You don’t test for genetic conditions unless there is a reason. The first time you know about a condition is when someone becomes unwell and you investigate it. Sometimes the first time you know about Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is when someone has a cardiac arrest. I’m sure he would have had an ECG and echo scan of the heart at some point which even then, may not have shown any abnormality.

Then they’ll start to investigate it as HCM is a genetic condition so normally we would test siblings etc but you have to have a reason to test for it.

What you might actually mean to say is “why don’t football clubs actively look for these genetic conditions that are seen commonly in elite athletes. ’

The NHS wouldn’t do that routinely due to cost implication but obvious football clubs can afford it etc.

I personally think they should do!