Alan Shearer urges more money to be spent on football's dementia link
The former Newcastle striker was highlighting the risks in a BBC documentary
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Alan Shearer’s BBC documentary on dementia and football first aired in 2017 and explored possible links between heading footballs and later life dementia, featuring medical tests and interviews with affected players and families. This work is the primary public reporting on his personal investigation into the issue, and it spurred ongoing discussions about player welfare and research funding.[5][7]
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Since 2017, there have been continuing discussions and calls for more research and funding into football-related brain injury, including statements from the Professional Footballers’ Association and football authorities about establishing research programs and support for affected players. However, I don’t have evidence of widely reported, new public updates specifically about Alan Shearer himself in 2024–2026 within the sources available to me here.[7][5]
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Citations:
- Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football and Me (BBC, 2017).[5]
- Alan Shearer to present documentary on football and dementia (BBC Sport, 2017).[5]
- Independent reporting on the documentary and calls for research funding (The Independent, 2017).[7]