Joe Kinnear’s family part of brain injury legal action

A group of 35 players are taking action against game’s authorities

Wed, 01 May, 2024 - 17:12

Sean Ingle

Four Premier League-era players and the family of Joe Kinnear are part of the legal action against the football authorities over brain injuries sustained from playing the game, which returns to the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday.

They are part of a group of 35 former players who claim that the Football Association, English Football League, Football Association of Wales and Ifab, football’s law-making body, were negligent in failing to take reasonable action to protect them from permanent injury caused by repetitive concussive and subconcussive blows.