Injuries inquiry

A parliamentary inquiry into the link between sport and long-term brain injury has been launched. MPS on the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee will call witnesses to examine the issue, starting from next Tuesday.

It comes at a time when legal actions across football and both rugby codes are being considered or have been launched, and follows the 2019 FIELD study which found professional footballers were three-and-a-half times more likely to die of neurodegenerative disease than agematched members of the population. England football manager Gareth Southgate, left, has agreed to be part of the ongoing HEADING study being conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.