Player blamed old-style football for Alzheimer's
FORMER Celtic footballer Billy McPhail, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, launched a legal case for disability benefits blaming contact with a leather football during his career for his condition.
But McPhail, who scored an Old Firm hat trick in 1957, failed in his attempt to win damages at an industrial injuries tribunal in 1998. The tribunal said heading a football was part of a footballer's job.
Evidence from the department of mechanical engineering at Glasgow University showed the peak force a players's head would need to absorb from an old-style football travelling at speed, was half a ton.
The Scottish Professional Footballers' Association advised players to register head injuries.
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