“For almost 20 years now football has failed to act and failed to protect its players; men, women children, all at risk potentially,” Astle told MPs. I think football doesn’t want to think it can be a killer. “It’s two years in October since the Field study was published where we now know that footballers are three and a half times more likely to die of dementia. Cowie said the FA “didn’t put any limit on our resource” and granted funding that matched requests from those commissioned for research, including the Field study. “That was the real value and the real power of the Field study.”

Source: The Guardian March 23, 2021 15:20 UTC