"so football can't say: 'No this isn't happening'."
"Football is all Chris wanted to do - he wouldn't have changed his career," she said. "But we want it on record that it wasn't Alzheimer's. "There are going to be a lot more families... football's got away with ignoring it for a long time."
"on the balance of probability repeatedly heading footballs contributed to his developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)"
"brain-damaged from heading balls". Nicholl said: "My memory is in trouble. Everyone forgets regular things, where your keys are. But when you forget where you live, t"
The death certificate for Chris Nicholl was amended to record brain disease linked to repetitive head trauma. The original certificate listed bronchopneumonia and a bowel condition as causes of death. A family-led campaign prompted a new hearing at Salisbury Coroner's Court and the change. Nicholl's former partner emphasized the importance of the amendment to prevent football authorities denying such cases. A coroner recently found that repeated heading was likely a contributing factor to CTE in another former player. Nicholl had a notable playing and managerial career and described memory problems consistent with brain injury after heading footballs.
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