Three points come to mind.

1. Does the survey give the difference in injury severity between October and January for a non-world cup year by way of a control?
2. How many of the injured players in January actually went to the World Cup?
3. 88 recorded injuries is in no way a big enough sample size to draw any firm conclusions.

I do wonder how much money would be left in sports if we removed anything which was linked to horrific abuses of human rights.

I’d say my favourite sports to watch are football, golf, snooker, tennis and combat sports. Every single one of them has taken the money, even the ones which moralised against it (the PGA Tour telling everyone how terrible PIF were for starting the LIV league only to cede control to them, tennis abandoning its China boycott despite nothing happening with the Peng Shuai case).

As a Newcastle fan, this season has really illustrated how much toll a European campaign can have on a squad after a few injuries. With no midweek game prior I think we win that even with the injuries.