Call to revamp research into sport’s links to dementiaNew group led by Dr Judith Gates, wife of former playerThe 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.