No-brainer : A Footballer's Story of Life, Love and Brain Injury

個数:

No-brainer : A Footballer's Story of Life, Love and Brain Injury

  • オンデマンド(OD/POD)版です。キャンセルは承れません。

  • 提携先の海外書籍取次会社に在庫がございます。通常約2週間で発送いたします。
    重要ご説明事項
    1. 納期遅延や、ご入手不能となる場合が若干ございます。
    2. 複数冊ご注文の場合は、ご注文数量が揃ってからまとめて発送いたします。
    3. 美品のご指定は承りかねます。

    ●3Dセキュア導入とクレジットカードによるお支払いについて
  • 【入荷遅延について】
    世界情勢の影響により、海外からお取り寄せとなる洋書・洋古書の入荷が、表示している標準的な納期よりも遅延する場合がございます。
    おそれいりますが、あらかじめご了承くださいますようお願い申し上げます。
  • ◆画像の表紙や帯等は実物とは異なる場合があります。
  • ◆ウェブストアでの洋書販売価格は、弊社店舗等での販売価格とは異なります。
    また、洋書販売価格は、ご注文確定時点での日本円価格となります。
    ご注文確定後に、同じ洋書の販売価格が変動しても、それは反映されません。
  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 336 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781914487231

Full Description

Bill Gates had quick feet and a quicker brain. His talent for football took him from the backstreets of a mining village to the biggest stadiums in English football. He played for Middlesbrough in the 1960s and 1970s alongside the England world cup winner Nobby Stiles and was managed by another 1966 hero, Jack Charlton.

There was another side to Bill, he was a shrewd and hard-working businessman. In the 1980s, he and his wife Judith sold the sports shop chain they had built for millions. They moved to the Cayman Islands and lived a luxury lifestyle.

There was just one problem - the headaches kept getting worse. Then the memory problems came.

No Brainer interweaves Bill and Judith Gates's extraordinary rise from humble roots to Caribbean millionaires with the story of football's hidden tragedy.

In 2014, Bill was diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Dementia is football's industrial disease and its guilty secret.

Many famous ex-footballers have succumbed to the disease (a far higher percentage than in the general public) almost certainly from repeatedly heading the ball. Sharp-witted, agile strong men are now diminished and confused.

Jeff Astle, Denis Law, and Bob Paisley and many other well-known footballers have suffered with neurodegenerative decline linked to their playing careers - along with Gates's colleagues Nobby Stiles and Jack Charlton.

To combat this problem, Judith Gates, who had her own journey from teenage mother to successful academic, co-founded the charity Head Safe Football, which will receive all royalties from the book.

Interwoven with the Gates' family story are interviews with brain experts such as Dr Willie Stewart, consultant neuropathologist at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Dr Michael Hornberger, Professor of Applied Dementia Research at the University of East Anglia.

Dozens of retired footballers and rugby players have started legal action against the sports authorities over the injuries they sustained while playing. No Brainer tells their story through the prism of a remarkable lad from a Durham pit village - and his equally remarkable wife.

Contents

Foreword

1. 'It was many years before I could properly enjoy a gin and tonic'

2. 'I want to tell them there's a ticking time bomb. As you are, once was Bill'

3. 'A rugged centre half who wouldn't flinch at a head-on meeting with Cassius Clay, if he was wearing a No 9 shirt'

4. 'There are lots of opportunities in life. Some people take them and some people don't'

5. 'The authorities don't seem prepared to admit the scale of the problem. People like my dad loved football, and it's killing them'

6. 'When it all comes out, what has happened in football will be seen as a scandal worse than Savile, worse than Grenfell Tower, worse than Windrush'

7. 'My mum knows nothing about football but she is the most dangerous woman in the game'

8. 'Judith's formidable, that's the word. She's driven, and she's not going to let it go now'

9. 'I knew there wouldn't be conversations, I'd no illusions about that, but in many ways he wasn't my dad'

10. 'He didn't need much persuading. I think the quid pro quo was a small box of Milk Tray'

11. 'I spent the night in Middlesbrough hospital. It went on like that for two days and they had me training again on the third' 

12. 'This disease tests your kindness. It tests your patience. It tests your family. It tests everything except your love. But the more you love, the more your heart breaks'

13. 'The brutal truth is that there aren't enough people suffering from MND to make research a good investment for drug companies'

14. 'If you got a bad concussion, stumbling around a bit, it was regarded as a joke and played afterwards on the videotape, so everyone could have a good laugh'

15. 'My dad was always very supportive of the PFA, but I think they've failed families and football participants in general'

16. 'People would cross the road to avoid you, even in Middlesbrough'

17. 'I've been in board rooms full of people from Oxford and Cambridge and always had the advantage of them, because I was from Co Durham'

18. 'I really care about finding the answer, but I don't want to come across as a saint'

19. 'I remember (down the pit) they used to call the daft lads the heedybaals. A bit late, but it all starts to make sense'

20. 'It very much reminds me of the smoking debate. Everyone knows that it's wrong, unwise, but no one seems to do much'

21. 'The Concussion in Sport Group has controlled the narrative for 20 years, and it has come to this'

22. 'How pathetic that 30 former footballers are to sue the Football Association over negligence. . . . '

23. 'If this was the shipyards, I'm talking about asbestos, the trade unions would be calling them out because of the risk to their health'

24. 'We would have expected the Football Association to have been publicly hounded by the Professional Footballers' Association. . . '

25. 'I truly believe that this is the beginning of the end. It's exciting to think that we will soon have life-saving treatments to tackle this disease' 

26. 'Various failings over a prolonged period of time'

27. 'Certainly there seems to be recent history between Head for Change and the PFA'

28. 'We've had the agitations and the obsessions. Now he's happy and safe. That's such a relief to us all'

29. 'The conversations they're having in rugby they were having in boxing 100 years ago'

30. 'It's a space where we can say what we want without judgement. We don't have to be good girls being brave'

31. 'It's so sad that football was his passion and is now the cause of his demise'

32. 'There is a fundamental issue if players, unions and leagues feel that lawmakers are holding them back from what they collectively agree to protect the safety of players'

33. 'Head for Change is doing what the wealthy Players' Foundation refuses to do'

34. 'There is a remarkable consistency of symptoms across all these contact sports, and it is very grim'

35. 'We appreciate the invitation to take part in the book, however we would politely have to decline on this occasion'

36. 'After years of political wrangling, England's football authorities are close to agreeing a deal to establish a Dementia Care Fund to help former players'

37. 'He wanted no one else from Ferryhill, from Spennymoor, from the whole world to suffer as he was suffering'

38. 'Another cliché -sorry — we can only play the hand we're dealt'

39. 'We are a charity for everyone — all ages, genders, players at every level' 

40. 'It's hard to envisage our authorities allowing our sportsmen and women play what seems designed to hasten the onset of dementia'

最近チェックした商品