Dr Roberts warns of pseudoscience epidemic in elite football
1Sep 22 · 2d ago · 2 articles · 2 posts · 3 sources · development 1 of 2
Dr Claire-Marie Roberts, who spent nine years at the Premier League and recently joined McLaren as director of human performance, tells The Guardian that professional football is being systematically duped by unproven recovery and performance methods. She describes receiving up to 50 weekly LinkedIn pitches for dubious devices and supplements, and criticizes the prevalence of cryotherapy chambers that most practitioners cannot justify scientifically.
theguardian.com
“It's the science-practice gap, which is widening in my experience. I think it's getting much worse. There's so much sparkly marketing behind all these things. It's bordering on exploitation.”
