The reprehensible reaction to Loris Karius’s howlers highlights the need for not only empathy and perspective but better diagnosis and policy changes in high-performance sports like football, where head injuries are rampant.
“Central to the story was the unfortunate Loris Karius, whose two glaring efforts will haunt him for years. However, we all make mistakes at work sometimes: some will crash fork-lift trucks, some will miss deadlines…It’s important to retain a sense of perspective.”
– David Squires
When Liverpool lost the 2017-18 Champions League final vs Real Madrid, I felt winded and a bit dizzy. It was the longest and the most audible sigh in my millenial life. In a pub filled with five hundred or more Liverpool fans, I was lonely and my back was a little sore.
Writing on the positives from this defeat, Dan Fieldsend highlighted how the game has a way of mimicking life and inadvertently teaching morals. The final mimicked my state of mind, a heady cocktail of sadness and hope.