Four Premier League-era players and the family of Joe Kinnear are part of a legal action against the football authorities over brain injuries sustained from playing the game, which returns to the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday.
They are part of a group of 35 former players who claim that the Football Association, English Football League, Football Association of Wales and Ifab, football’s law-making body, were negligent in failing to take reasonable action to protect them from permanent injury caused by repetitive concussive and subconcussive blows.
