England World Cup winner Nobby Stiles' family is among a group launching legal proceedings against soccer's rule-making body as well the English and Welsh FAs for negligence over claims they failed to protect players from permanent brain injury.
"The proposed claimants contend that these defendants were negligent in failing to take reasonable action in order to protect players from permanent injury caused by repetitive concussive and sub-concussive blows," Rylands said in a statement on Friday. Rylands' statement also alleged specific areas in which the governing bodies were negligent, including a failure to reduce deliberate heading in matches and training, monitor the amount of head contacts and implement appropriate requirements for the examination of players.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)