PFA happy with record on screening

Professional Footballers Association chief executive Gordon Taylor has revealed his organisation has spent around £7m over the last 20 years on screening professional footballers for heart defects.

The deaths of Terry Yorath’s son Daniel, a promising 15-year-old who had just signed schoolboy forms with Leeds, and Everton youth-team player Jack Marshall, triggered a policy of far more stringent tests to ensure such incidents never happened again.