Open letter from Mark Reason
"Please, George, it is time to stop.
Don't play for Northampton
again, a club that treats you like a battery hen. Don't play for Wales
in the Six Nations. Don't be tempted by the Lions and come to New
Zealand.
Do you remember the Lions tour of Australia? Well, do
you? Some of it might be a bit fuzzy now. There was a moment in the
second test when big Israel Folau went in for the tackle and you carried
him five metres backwards. The crowd roared. But as you went down in a
heap, your head was driven into the ground and your neck compressed.
People
have been paralysed by far less. You said you had been "tombstoned
right on my head like a wrestling move." And you weren't allowed to
watch wrestling by your mum as a kid because she thought it was too
violent. What about the violence you are doing to your brain?"
Read the full piece on Rugby Heaven.
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