[spireitematt]

While I have no doubt that blows to the head can cause major medical issues, I also think we have to be careful not to claim that football players only get dementia becuase they played football!!  There are millions of people from all walks of life who are suffering from dementia of some kind, my father and sister-in-law among them, and as far as I know they have never suffered from blows to the head.  So far the number of footballers who have been known to suffer from this seems to be no higher than the normal averages you would find in society.  I think there certainly needs to be more research but I would rather see that money spent on research on dementia as a whole, not on football in particular.

Very true Charles. We all have to hope a cure is found.