Guy Branston
FORMER FOOTBALL LEAGUE DEFENDER AND LEICESTER CITY LOANS MANAGER

During my playing days as acentre-half, I didn’t give a second’s thought to the dangers of heading a football.
The stuff that’s been going on over the past five years, the research and the statistics, has been a real eye opener. There’s been a realisation amongst players that ‘Okay, there probably is a risk here’.
It’s an issue that has been in the news again this week following the retirement of Bristol City’s Nathan Baker. The 32-year-old suffered concussions in two successive months at the end of 2021 and, af...