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Players let down over dementia risk, says Kinnear daughter

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The daughter of the late former Wimbledon and Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear says he and players of his generation were “let down” by the football authorities over the risk of dementia.

Kinnear, who played for Tottenham Hotspur, was diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease in 2015 and passed away in April at the age of 77.

Earlier this month it was revealed that his family are among a number of claimants taking legal action against some of the sport's governing bodies over brain injuries allegedly suffered during their careers.

Russ Doffman told BBC Sport she suspected that repeated heading drills her father took part in involving “loads of headers with a very heavy leather ball.