Denis Law, maybe the finest header of a ball I’ve ever seen, (and one of the most frequent) is a prostate cancer survivor but no sign of dementia. Look at all the old fashioned centre forwards, centre halves who frequently headed the ball over many years and there is no pattern. Poor old Nobby, short- arse that he was, wasnt much of a header of the ball. Nor was my mam, who died several years ago with it.
Bit of a difference playing on sodden, waterlogged pitches, heading a 5-ton casey that absorbed the water, than feather-weight balloons in use now.
Another nail in the coffin of football coming up, for sure. As long as we keep var, and just hold our ecstasy in for 5 minutes before celebrating a goal, we’ll be right. Becomes a bit of a pointless habit, continuing rule-changing.