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Originally Posted by pagl
The new knee should improve his quality of life and palliative care.
Dealing with any dementia/Alzheimers will be far tougher so good luck with additional care.
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it's great news that Gareth's knee has been sorted - but I can't help but think about the comparison with the late Jeff Astle who was a centre forward for West Bromwich Albion - he suffered in later years from memory loss which his family were convinced was caused by repeatedly heading footballs - Gareth being a centre back must have generated similar repeated head to ball contact over many years - specifically it would be interesting to see if research into alzheimers in footballers is more prevalent than the general public - I played centre half / centre forward in my youth - heading a ball repeatedly kicked from both keepers at height can't do you much good - not to mention the occasional clash of heads.