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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Brain injuries hearing: ‘no safe number of times’ a footballer can head the ball

Footballer heading the ball.
As many as 150 former footballers could join the joint action against the football authorities over brain injuries suffered while playing. Photograph: Sebastian Widmann/Bundesliga/Bundesliga Collection/Getty Images

There is “no safe limit” for heading a football, the high court heard, as lawyers acting for former players who suffered permanent brain injuries sought to advance their case against the game’s authorities.

Claimants in the case argue that the authorities should have made players aware of the risks they were taking by heading a ball as far back as the 1960s, claiming that information on the danger of repeated blows to the head was in the public domain.

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