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Football clubs warned to protect players from dementia - or face paying millions

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Football clubs and sporting authorities risk facing multi-million-pound lawsuits if they fail to protect players from brain injuries caused by heading the ball, a leading lawyer has warned.

It comes on the first anniversary of the landmark FA-commissioned FIELD Study, which found footballers were three times more likely to die from dementia.

The FA has yet to take any steps to limit how often professionals head the ball, so far only banning under-12s from heading footballs in training.

Ipek Tugcu, a solicitor at Bolt Burden Kemp and a mentor at the brain injury charity, Headway, said: “I’m disappointed at how little has changed in the last year. “The research is indisputable, linking repetitive head trauma to increased risk of

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