Nightmare of Alzheimer’s after a career in football

IN response to Syd Vaughan’s letter (“Should heading be banned from football?”, February 17), I have had first-hand experience of the dangers involved as my late husband, Rex Tilley, played for Plymouth Argyle in the 1950s and he spent the last five years of his life suffering from Alzheimer’s.

Betty Tilley, St Ives, Cornwall