The FA has stated for the first time that links between neurocognitive disease and football pose a risk for the organisation in terms of potential financial compensation and participation. Its annual report, which has been posted at Companies House, includes dementia’s link to football, identified in the study into football’s influence on lifelong health and dementia risk at the end of 2019, as one of the FA’s “principal risks and uncertainties”. SponsoredSo far the FA has not faced legal action similar to the claims lodged against rugby union’s governing bodies by a group of players including England’s 2003 World Cup-winner Steve Thompson but it states there is a risk. The FA’s report says: “The risks relating to this could be far-reaching if it is established

Source: The Times May 14, 2021 16:07 UTC