Son of ex-England star accuses head blows of causing his father's death
The son of Nuby Styles, one of the England players, the 1966 World Cup champion, said today, Monday, that he believes that the reason for his father's exposure to dementia, which he suffered from for years until his death, was due to the permanent head punching in the football game.
The autopsy of Styles, who died at the age of 78, confirmed that the brain region was affected by repeated exposure to head strikes.
Following the results, his son John confirmed that he did not suspect at all that his disease was a result of his continuous hitting the ball with his head.
John called on the authorities responsible for football to address what he described as a scandal, following the injury of five World Cup winners with the England national team, with dementia.
He added, "They demanded that scientists come up with evidence, when it is related to the brain it is difficult."
And John continued, "I think that my father played the ball with his head between 70 thousand and 100 thousand times in his career. Every time the ball hits his head, the brain hits the front of the skull."
Doctor William Stewart, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in the Scottish capital, Glasgow, had examined the brain of Nobi Styles after his death, where he confirmed the presence of signs consistent with the case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a form of progressive dementia.
However, the doctor did not confirm that these symptoms were the result of continuous exposure to head blows in football.
"I think what we are doing is we take all the evidence for the time being, I think that is enough to say that we have come up with the best solution, because head injuries and their effect on the brain are the thing that we are concerned about," Stewart added in statements to the BBC. ".
The ATP said, in response, that it had opened discussions about the matter and had funded three interested studies.
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