The growing clamour for football's authorities to take a decisive stance on dementia has been heightened by the case of a top Newcastle United striker.

John Tudor, SuperMac's partner in the 1974 FA Cup final, died in America on February 9 last year after 12 months of full-time and hospice care. He was 78 and had battled courageously against crippling dementia for more than a decade.

His widow Anne donated John's brain to the CTE Centre at Boston University in the States in an effort to help support the growing belief that there is a strong undeniable link between professional footballers heading the ball and dementia which has claimed so many.

She bravely made the decision in consultation with the family after talking to Dawn Astle, the daughter of England legend Jeff Astle who was the first pro player to receive a public CTE diagnosis.

I have received a copy of the detailed highly technical four-page medical report on Tudor which has just been released to the family and...