legal action

Will Pucovski’s school legal action is a warning to parents, coaches and schools: ignorance is no excuse when protection can reduce rotational forces.

The largest NFL mortality study found nearly four times higher neurodegenerative mortality and greater risk with longer careers.

The FA has denied a proven link between heading, repeated head impacts and long-term brain damage. But “no proof” is not a player welfare strategy. The science now points to cumulative exposure, rotational forces and prevention.

A new insurance warning in elite sport should trigger a wider rethink of head protection. Judith McMinn argues that sport must move beyond post-injury management and take brain protection seriously.