Terry Butcher calls for heading to be ‘phased out’ of football

Terry Butcher makes an aerial challenge in England’s 1982 World Cup match against hosts Spain. Picture: PA Archive

Heading should be phased out of football, former England defender Terry Butcher has said.

Butcher was the epitome of the tough centre-back in his playing days and once famously played on for England in a World Cup qualifier against Sweden despite bleeding profusely from a head wound.