Working under manager Bryan Robson and chairman Steve Gibson, Barnes’ breakthrough didn’t come sitting under an apple tree, but rather in the unlikely location of Rockliffe Park training ground in Darlington. Like science, football is slow to accept new ideas which make the immediate success sports scientist Chris Barnes enjoyed when asked to create ‘what was the first multidisciplinary sports science department for an English Premier League club’ at Middlesbrough F.C in 1997 all the more impressive. Scientific innovation is often met with resistance: Albert Einstein was disrespected by fellow physicists, Galileo Galilei’s work went against religious convention while Isaac Newton was regarded as a deviant for his philosophical views.
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