The Ashes. No. 4.
After the 1974/75 Ashes series, in which Jeff Thompson and Dennis Lillee left England's batsmen nursing copious breaks, bumps and bruises, academic Dr R.W.Cockshut (no, honestly!) warned that, if bumpers were not banned, 1976 would bring to cricket "up to ten deaths and forty irreversible brain injuries caused by impact of cricket ball on skull."
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If I am not mistaken the esteemed Dr Cockshut also warned football fans who stand behind the goal at Racing Club Warwick of similar dangers caused by the impact of stray footballs on the bonce!!
From what I recall of Racing Club's strikers, Mr Howes, standing behind, or adjacent to, the goal was the safest place in the ground.