Mike Amos

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A Footballer's Story of Life, Love and Brain Injury

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the story of the â realâ Bill Gates. A famous footballer, a successful millionaire and a global philanthropist. The story of an incredible man and his remarkable wife, who resolved to save the next generation of football players.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canbury Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781914487231
• ISBN-10: 1914487230
• Artikelnr.: 69188268

Autorenporträt

Mike Amos was for 55 years a journalist in north-east England, almost entirely on The Northern Echo, until made redundant at the age of 73. He has won more than 40 journalism awards, was named North-East Journalist of the Year seven times in 18 years, was an inaugural inductee in the Provincial Journalism Hall of Fame and in 2006 was appointed MBE for services to journalism.Born in Shildon, Co Durham, where he served as local councillor, churchwarden and parish magazine editor, he retains a lifelong passion for Shildon FC but worries over where allegiance might lie should they ever draw his other favoured club, Arsenal.For 20 years until 2016 he was chairman of the Northern Football League, the world's second oldest, and has written or edited several books about the league. Other books include Unconsidered Trifles, a 400-page memoir of life as a "jobbing journalist."

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1. ‘It was many years before I could properly enjoy a gin and tonic’
2. ‘I want to tell them there’s a ticking time bomb. As you are, once was
Bill’
3. ‘A rugged centre half who wouldn’t flinch at a head-on meeting with
Cassius Clay, if he was wearing a No 9 shirt’
4. ‘There are lots of opportunities in life. Some people take them and some
people don’t’
5. ‘The authorities don’t seem prepared to admit the scale of the problem.
People like my dad loved football, and it’s killing them’
6. 'When it all comes out, what has happened in football will be seen as a
scandal worse than Savile, worse than Grenfell Tower, worse than Windrush'
7. ‘My mum knows nothing about football but she is the most dangerous woman
in the game’
8. ‘Judith’s formidable, that’s the word. She’s driven, and she’s not going
to let it go now’
9. ‘I knew there wouldn’t be conversations, I’d no illusions about that,
but in many ways he wasn’t my dad’
10. ‘He didn’t need much persuading. I think the quid pro quo was a small
box of Milk Tray’
11. ‘I spent the night in Middlesbrough hospital. It went on like that for
two days and they had me training again on the third’
12. ‘This disease tests your kindness. It tests your patience. It tests
your family. It tests everything except your love. But the more you love,
the more your heart breaks’
13. ‘The brutal truth is that there aren’t enough people suffering from MND
to make research a good investment for drug companies’
14. ‘If you got a bad concussion, stumbling around a bit, it was regarded
as a joke and played afterwards on the videotape, so everyone could have a
good laugh'
15. ‘My dad was always very supportive of the PFA, but I think they’ve
failed families and football participants in general’
16. ‘People would cross the road to avoid you, even in Middlesbrough’
17. ‘I’ve been in board rooms full of people from Oxford and Cambridge and
always had the advantage of them, because I was from Co Durham’
18. ‘I really care about finding the answer, but I don’t want to come
across as a saint’
19. ‘I remember (down the pit) they used to call the daft lads the
heedybaals. A bit late, but it all starts to make sense’
20. ‘It very much reminds me of the smoking debate. Everyone knows that
it’s wrong, unwise, but no one seems to do much’
21. ‘The Concussion in Sport Group has controlled the narrative for 20
years, and it has come to this’
22. ‘How pathetic that 30 former footballers are to sue the Football
Association over negligence. . . . ’
23. ‘If this was the shipyards, I’m talking about asbestos, the trade
unions would be calling them out because of the risk to their health’
24. ‘We would have expected the Football Association to have been publicly
hounded by the Professional Footballers’ Association. . . ’
25. ‘I truly believe that this is the beginning of the end. It’s exciting
to think that we will soon have life-saving treatments to tackle this
disease’
26. ‘Various failings over a prolonged period of time’
27. ‘Certainly there seems to be recent history between Head for Change and
the PFA'
28. ‘We’ve had the agitations and the obsessions. Now he’s happy and safe.
That’s such a relief to us all’
29. ‘The conversations they’re having in rugby they were having in boxing
100 years ago’
30. ‘It’s a space where we can say what we want without judgement. We don’t
have to be good girls being brave’
31. ‘It’s so sad that football was his passion and is now the cause of his
demise’
32. ‘There is a fundamental issue if players, unions and leagues feel that
lawmakers are holding them back from what they collectively agree to
protect the safety of players’
33. ‘Head for Change is doing what the wealthy Players’ Foundation refuses
to do’
34. ‘There is a remarkable consistency of symptoms across all these contact
sports, and it is very grim’
35. ‘We appreciate the invitation to take part in the book, however we
would politely have to decline on this occasion’
36. ‘After years of political wrangling, England’s football authorities are
close to agreeing a deal to establish a Dementia Care Fund to help former
players’
37. ‘He wanted no one else from Ferryhill, from Spennymoor, from the whole
world to suffer as he was suffering’
38. ‘Another cliché –sorry — we can only play the hand we’re dealt’
39. ‘We are a charity for everyone — all ages, genders, players at every
level’
40. 'It’s hard to envisage our authorities allowing our sportsmen and women
play what seems designed to hasten the onset of dementia’