Jim White calls for major change after incident involving Leeds ace Robin Koch v Manchester United
Jim White has called for serious change after Leeds player Robin Koch was forced off against Manchester United on Sunday.
The German was allowed back on after taking a heavy bang to his head but was forced off 10 minutes later after showing signs of concussion.
White was bewildered and questioned what it will take to make change happen before someone is seriously injured.
Speaking live on talkSPORT’s White and Jordan this morning (21 February, 11:10) the host was not impressed.
“The bigger question is what do we do?” he said.
“Because we’ve seen this too often, we’ve seen this once too often yesterday with Robin Koch, so where do we take this? Becuase, obviously this has got to change.”
Dangerous.
We all love a player who will put everything on the line for the shirt, but there has to be a line drawn in the sand at some stage.
Koch was bloodied on the floor for nearly 10 minutes, and the bang to his head was clearly huge, yet he was allowed back on.
Marcelo Bielsa can’t make that decision, it is down to the medical staff, and they clearly have no real time to make that call.
It takes a period of time for concussion signs to show, and that eventually happened after Koch was allowed back on.
Concussion substitutes need to be made a permanent factor in football, there is surely no one who would resist that based on this evidence.
It is going too far, and at this stage, it is going to take someone getting seriously hurt before changes are made.
In other Leeds United news, Jeff Stelling has shared what he has been told about the injury blow to Patrick Bamford over the weekend