The Football Club's C.E.O. is Cliff Sturmey whose eldest son suffered from the Osgood Schlatters Disease injury, and he has made a full recovery due to the immediate action and treatment as advised by Consultants and Physiotherapist advice and treatment respectively.

At the top of the page is a link to an article called Gaming for Health by Cliff Sturmey, this article has been professionally written by the publisher of a prodigious football journal the Soccer Investor, and the publisher has offered that he would place this article in his publication as an advertorial, this way it will get the publicity to the football decision makers of the professional game and hopefully a good response will be forthcoming as a result.

This article is to be informative only at this time, and it is in no way an opinion expressed by Mr Sturmey, nor is it to be acted upon as some of the content has been researched by the publisher only, and it must be stressed that all reference to this disease is on an information only basis and is only given as an insight to highlight the actual disease.

It is necessary to emphasise to everyone that under any circumstances regarding injuries or illness that you should always attain the proper medical and professional advice with your medical practitioners which is sourced, of course via the person(s) own Doctors, Physicians, Consultants etc. working within the various medical specialist fields who will be paying particular attention to your own particular needs and requirements.

Within my own son's experience and those passed on to us via the promotion of the Awareness Programme that local people have advised us with, we have found that people contracting the Osgood Schlatters disease in extreme cases have been reduced to very restrictive movement due to the pain and discomfort surrounding this one particular injury, so much so, that we have been told of how boys at one senior school have to go up and down stairs on their backside one step at a time. We are more concerned that parents are prepared to administer medication and treatment both before, during and after a game of football just to get a young player through a fixture. The latter I have personally seen and commented on and it is not a satisfactory situation - with one particular experience at first hand a player was starting a match and lasting for about 20 minutes before coming off the field to undergo treatment and taking no further part in the game. This is of no benefit to the player and can only prolong the recovery.