
S3 E25: Why a Five-Year-Old Premier League Recruit Is Just Madness
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Are You Putting Your Children in Danger?
Bin: I feel quite strongly that all these academies and stuff are actually putting our children in danger. They're not just breaking them physically, but also emotionally, socially, mentally. The other thing i think's really interesting about the un Convention is they took about the right of heartthe prevention of, prevention of harm. But if you think about any other context, so we used to allow children to work in er minds,. We used to allow them to work in the textile factories. And then we decide that was a really bad idea and terrible for them, and so we stopped it, and we protected them from that. But not in sport. For some reason everyone thinks it's
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