The club did do something to raise awareness a few months ago. Wignall and Grummitt were hosted at the WFCG by Ian Storey-Moore and, if I remember correctly, Alan Hill and I think it was part of a wider awareness campaign. There was (may still be) a video item on it on the Forest website.
The leather balls back then used to soak up water making them so much heavier than those of today, and they were already seemed heavier without the water. The lace area that covered the 'valve' to inflate the ball could also be a hurtful place to head too"Research indicates that former professional association footballers who played in the 1950s and 1960s face a significantly higher risk of dementia, with studies suggesting they are 3.5 times more likely to die of neurodegenerative disease than the general population. While an exact overall percentage for the entire 1960s cohort is not definitively cited as a single number, one expert estimate suggests that, roughly speaking, 30% of professional footballers of that era may eventually develop dementia, compared to a background rate of 10% in the general population."
