As former rugby players take legal action, experts warn that authorities in many sports must do more to prevent head injuriesFootball and rugby facing flood of claims over head injuries warningIn the 1980s and 1990s, Crispin Cormack, a full-back who could also play fly-half, turned out for Pontypridd, Cardiff Quins and
London Welsh, and toured Australia with Wales.
These days he is a lawyer specialising in personal injury claims. Last week, in the wake of the revelation that a group of former professional players were taking legal action against the game’s authorities for their alleged failure to protect them from risks that caused concussions, his phone started ringing.