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KiwiValley
KiwiValley Posts: 3,379
in General Charlton
I am always seeing footballers spitting . The pitches must be absolutely awash in gobs of nasty stuff. I still play 11 aside football and in the last 15 years have spat on average 0 times a season. Why do footballers spit? If you play sport and spit, why do you? ... There seems to be no physiological reason that I can think of to explain how sport creates simultaneously both a surfeit of spit and an inability to swallow it. Basketballers some how manage to control spit production so do F1 drivers and trampolinists. So why footballers ?

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  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,223
    No idea, ask the dog
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    Used to spit when I was a Road Runner... Cleared my mouth for longer and helped me breath better
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Used to spit when I was a Road Runner... Cleared my mouth for longer and helped me breath better

    And easier to evade the coyote.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Aaarrrrhhhhhh!

    Too many jokes about you always swallowing!
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    DaveMehmet said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    Used to spit when I was a Road Runner... Cleared my mouth for longer and helped me breath better

    And easier to evade the coyote.
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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Used to spit when I was a Road Runner... Cleared my mouth for longer and helped me breath better

    Same reason I do it, whether on a pitch or on a run.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    Although at times would swirl it round my mouth and swallow it if my mouth was dry and if a Drinks Station wasnt close
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    KiwiValley said:

    I am always seeing footballers spitting . The pitches must be absolutely awash in gobs of nasty stuff. I still play 11 aside football and in the last 15 years have spat on average 0 times a season. Why do footballers spit? If you play sport and spit, why do you? ... There seems to be no physiological reason that I can think of to explain how sport creates simultaneously both a surfeit of spit and an inability to swallow it. Basketballers some how manage to control spit production so do F1 drivers and trampolinists. So why footballers ?

    Footballers do it to get rid of the cocaine residue :smile:

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