The not so beautiful game
01 June 2016 - 09:45
Football today stands accused of behaving like the tobacco industry of the 1960s and has been warned that its "scandalous" failure to carry out research into the link between dementia and the world's most popular sport risks legal action running into hundreds of millions of pounds.The issue has been brought into sharp focus in this 50th anniversary year of England's 1966 World Cup triumph, with four of the eight surviving outfield players of England's greatest team now confirmed to be suffering ...
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