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The sudden downfall of Meanwood has puzzled football pundits and experts across the country. Meanwood's downfall ultimately resulted in them withdrawing from their league; this was the first time Meanwood were not involved league football in their long history. Many people have mentioned many possibilities to why Meanwood's downfall occurred and why they suffered so many injuries. In this article, we try and explore just some of these theories.
The most common cause put forward for this is exhaustion of the body. Meanwood's players had played a game a week for well over a year and they had never been given a mid-season break. On top of that, some of the players had been playing two games a week as well as other physical activities such as rugby commitments and that's not even considering the amount of training each player had to do such as weightlifting and running. So is it any wonder that the Meanwood players suffered a series of injuries? The majority of injuries had all come in action and this suggests they pushed their bodies too far. A factor that could have combined with this is the misuse of alcohol. Some of the Meanwood players had become increasingly dependant on alcohol, especially Woody who was a full blown alcoholic at the time and had even turned up to matches drunk. Alcohol is absorbed by the body's vital organs as well as the tissues. As alcohol weakens the Epithelium tissues (the tissues that protect the body such as the skin), it means that the body is less protected and more prone to damages. On top of this alcohol also effects the muscle tissues and makes them more likely to tear. This could explain the number of breaks and tears, such as Bissitt and Gafa's torn knee ligaments and Woody, Aydan, Dean and Mckeith's broken bones. However, Gafa is not a heavy drinker so other than wear and tear it could have been simple bad luck.  Although most of the injuries may have occurred in action, the majority did not occur naturally, in the sense that they did not occur through general wear and tear. Most notably, Aydan, McKeith and Woody's injuries were caused by a high impact force breaking the bones. All of those injuries were caused by objects, in Aydan's case the force of the ball hitting his arm, in Mckieth's case the force of his foot miss-kicking the barriers and in Woody's case the force of his arm going into the ground. Luck can be defined as that which happens beyond a person's control and in those three cases that was most certainly the case. This is also the case for Gafa when he picked up his chest injury that prevented him from breathing normally, that was also beyond his control.Strictly speaking nothing causes bad luck but some people believe it is caused by witchcraft.
One of the most common spells of witchcraft is a a curse. This may sound outragous but many people have lightheartedly talked about "the curse of Meanwood". So if this is the case then who would have wanted to put a curse on Meanwood? The main suspects must be the footballers wags. Jenna Rymer and Laura MacLean were increasingley frustrated with the their boyfriends playing for Meanwood instead of spending quality time at home and they had already lured them away from matches before. They defintley had a motive but whether they had the means is another question entireley. However, it is entirely possible that they did have the means because both have internet access and both could have looked the subject up on the internet. After loooking at the main causes for Meanwood's downfall there is no definitive answer for their downfall, we simply will never find out. However, the one positive thing with all these injuries is that there is a good chance that all players will recover enough to play again.
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