Anger at FA over apparent denial of heading and brain injury link

The coroner in the case of former Everton player and Welsh international Alan Jarvis, who died in 2019, described his death as being as the result of “industrial disease”, similar to that of Jeff Astle, the former West Bromwich Albion player who died in 2002 and in whose name a foundation was set up to support past and present players dealing with brain-related injuries.