Gordon McQueen’ s family have welcomed a crackdown on heading the ball in training in the hope it will prevent players from suffering dementia in their later years.
Rules announced by the Scottish Football Association yesterday will limit training exercises involving repeated heading to once a week and all heading is banned the day before and after a match.
Gordon, 70, was last year diagnosed with vascular dementia, which his family believe was linked to years of heading the ball.
Yesterday, his brother Iain praised the SFA for bringing in the training crackdown on headers over fears of links to brain damage.
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