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We need to know what's going on here.
Records are getting much better, for a start. Especially since the internet age. Before then, there would be little chance of finding out about deaths in football matches in Indonesia, Nigeria or the Emirates. I don't know if players/teams in some of those leagues could afford doping regimes.
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The Guardian, like most of the media, is very mean with its coverage of cycling excepting when there's an unsavoury drugs story. By contrast football not only fills up most of the sports pages, but gets plugged everywhere it's possible to do so.
Drugs in football ? It's not really a thing, excepting the odd recreational use story.
Now have a look at this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playing
Does anything strike anyone here about the prevalence of heart attacks after 1990?
This was a cause of death in earlier years, but nothing like so common. Odd, isn't it, that the change seems to co-incide with the start of a practice that we cyclists are all too familiar with.
We need to know what's going on here.