The daughter of the late former Wimbledon and Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear says she feels “his career [as a footballer] killed him” after revealing that an autopsy showed his brain was affected by a dementia believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head.
Kinnear, who played almost 200 times as a defender for Tottenham Hotspur, was diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease in 2015, and died in April at the age of 77.
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.