For BBC news, ex professional footballer Geoff Twentyman explores his worries about heading footballs. His own father, also a former professional, suffered from Alzheimer’s disease in later life and a former team mate at Bristol Rovers, Kevin Moore, died from a type of dementia in 2013, aged just 55.
As evidence mounts linking heading footballs with long-term brain injury, in the USA a decision was taken to ban heading for children under the age of 10.
Read the full article here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-35697276
