Analysis: Legislation may follow if the findings of an imminent select committee hearing on concussion prove to be alarming
Sport in the
UK has been summoned to the headmaster’s office. The announcement by the digital, culture, media and sport select committee that it is launching an inquiry into the links between sport and long-term brain injury serves notice that the matter has registered at a political level.
Of those shifting in their seats out in the corridor,
Football and both codes of rugby are the ones most obviously whispering questions to each other. Just how serious is this? Are they going through the motions, or are they going to start telling us what to do?