The story is at once frightening and moving and underlines the magnitude of rugby’s biggest problem.
In a desperately moving excerpt from his book, Unforgettable , published in The Sunday Times, former England hooker Steve Thompson highlights the scale of the neurological issues affecting him which he claims are a result of repeated blows to the head during his rugby career.
He says that the trauma of his situation, dealing with a diagnosis of early-onset dementia, had led him to contemplate taking his own life. And he relates a tale to illustrate just one of the many issues he now has to contend with.
