Families of Jack Charlton and Nobby Stiles back new concussion campaign

• Call to revamp research into sport’s links to dementia
• New group led by Dr Judith Gates, wife of former player

The families of two of England’s 1966 World Cup winners, Jack Charlton and Nobby Stiles, are backing a new campaign to revamp sport’s approach to research into the links between dementia and repeated blows to the head.

The campaign is being co-ordinated by Dr Judith Gates, wife of the former Middlesborough centre-back Bill Gates, and has received the backing of Charlton’s widow, Pat, and Stiles’s son Rob and granddaughter Caitlin.

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from Football | The Guardian https://bit.ly/3kpSTPt