Manager concerned about links between heading and dementiaJoe Willock joins Newcastle’s long injury list before Watford tripThe Newcastle manager, Steve Bruce, will take a perhaps unusually keen interest in a charity match between former professionals and semi-professionals staged at Spennymoor Town FC in County Durham on Sunday.
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Organised by the charity Head for Change, a body investigating football’s links with dementia, it will be the first adult 11-a-side game in the
UK to feature significant heading restrictions.