article_snippet.sent: ’s death aged 59 in 2002, from ‘industrial disease’ linked to repetitive head injuries sustained playing football, was ‘woefully inadequate’.
article_snippet.sent: The FA and PFA promised a 10-year study to investigate the connection between head injuries and early on-set dementia after a coroner found Jeff Astle’s brain ‘resembled that of a boxer’s’ but a Mail on Sunday investigation last year revealed the research was never carried out.
article_snippet.sent: There will be a piece of work about head injuries and football.
article_snippet.sent: The suggestion of Jeff Astle's family is that head injuries are more likely to lead to early on-set dementia and that is to do with heading the ball or physical contact.
article_snippet.sent: Astle is King’ in remembrance of a man whose death could yet prove the catalyst to drastic improvements to concussion protocols in sport.
article_snippet.sent: We have been inundated with calls from concerned families who believe calls from concerned families who believe their dads or husbands are suffering dementia prematurely because of the head injuries they suffered as professional footballers dads or husbands are suffering dementia prematurely because of the head injuries they suffered as professional footballers.
article_snippet.sent: the Mail on Sundayrevealed the Football Association did not carry out adequate research into Astle's death .
article_snippet.sent: Players need to leave the field if Players suffer a head injury.
article_snippet.sent: Sections of Astle’s brain were re-examined at Glasgow Southern General Hospital last year by Professor Willie Stewart, who confirmed the striker had been suffering from the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which was previously believed only to be found in boxers.
article_snippet.sent: But studies in the United States have revealed a far higher incidence of CTE in American footballers than the wider population, while sports including rugby, horse racing, boxing and ice hockey are also now on high alert following a massive lawsuit involving the NFL and retired players suffering dementia.
article_snippet.sent: Saturday’s match was attended by a host of celebrity backers, including 1966 World Cup-winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks, as well as concussion campaigners like Peter Robinson, my Ben died in 2011 after being allowed to play on after suffering repeated blows to the head.
article_snippet.sent: If one person present at the game had recognised the signs of concussion or understood how dangerous it could be then