Get Discount 5% Off
Subscribe to our newsletters now and stay up-to-date with new arrivals, updates and deals.
No-brainer: A Footballer's Story of Life, Love and Brain Injury
Bill Gates had quick feet and a quicker brain. His talent for football took him from the...
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
SKU:
9781914487231
Product Type:
Books
Please hurry! Only 402 left in stock
10 customers are viewing this product
Couldn't load pickup availability
Bill Gates had quick feet and a quicker brain. His talent for football took him from the backstreets of a mining village to the biggest stadiums in English football. He played for Middlesbrough in the 1960s and 1970s alongside the England world cup winner Nobby Stiles and was managed by another 1966 hero, Jack Charlton.
There was another side to Bill, he was a shrewd and hard-working businessman. In the 1980s, he and his wife Judith sold the sports shop chain they had built for millions. They moved to the Cayman Islands and lived a luxury lifestyle.
There was just one problem - the headaches kept getting worse. Then the memory problems came.
No Brainer interweaves Bill and Judith Gates's extraordinary rise from humble roots to Caribbean millionaires with the story of football's hidden tragedy.
In 2014, Bill was diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Dementia is football's industrial disease and its guilty secret.
Many famous ex-footballers have succumbed to the disease (a far higher percentage than in the general public) almost certainly from repeatedly heading the ball. Sharp-witted, agile strong men are now diminished and confused.
Jeff Astle, Denis Law, and Bob Paisley and many other well-known footballers have suffered with neurodegenerative decline linked to their playing careers - along with Gates's colleagues Nobby Stiles and Jack Charlton.
To combat this problem, Judith Gates, who had her own journey from teenage mother to successful academic, co-founded the charity Head Safe Football, which will receive all royalties from the book.
Interwoven with the Gates' family story are interviews with brain experts such as Dr Willie Stewart, consultant neuropathologist at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Dr Michael Hornberger, Professor of Applied Dementia Research at the University of East Anglia.
Dozens of retired footballers and rugby players have started legal action against the sports authorities over the injuries they sustained while playing. No Brainer tells their story through the prism of a remarkable lad from a Durham pit village - and his equally remarkable wife.
Author: Mike Amos
Publisher: Canbury Press
Published: 04/11/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.02w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781914487231
There was another side to Bill, he was a shrewd and hard-working businessman. In the 1980s, he and his wife Judith sold the sports shop chain they had built for millions. They moved to the Cayman Islands and lived a luxury lifestyle.
There was just one problem - the headaches kept getting worse. Then the memory problems came.
No Brainer interweaves Bill and Judith Gates's extraordinary rise from humble roots to Caribbean millionaires with the story of football's hidden tragedy.
In 2014, Bill was diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Dementia is football's industrial disease and its guilty secret.
Many famous ex-footballers have succumbed to the disease (a far higher percentage than in the general public) almost certainly from repeatedly heading the ball. Sharp-witted, agile strong men are now diminished and confused.
Jeff Astle, Denis Law, and Bob Paisley and many other well-known footballers have suffered with neurodegenerative decline linked to their playing careers - along with Gates's colleagues Nobby Stiles and Jack Charlton.
To combat this problem, Judith Gates, who had her own journey from teenage mother to successful academic, co-founded the charity Head Safe Football, which will receive all royalties from the book.
Interwoven with the Gates' family story are interviews with brain experts such as Dr Willie Stewart, consultant neuropathologist at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Dr Michael Hornberger, Professor of Applied Dementia Research at the University of East Anglia.
Dozens of retired footballers and rugby players have started legal action against the sports authorities over the injuries they sustained while playing. No Brainer tells their story through the prism of a remarkable lad from a Durham pit village - and his equally remarkable wife.
Author: Mike Amos
Publisher: Canbury Press
Published: 04/11/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.02w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781914487231
Returns Policy
You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).
You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the "Complete Orders" link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.
Shipping
We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.
When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.
Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.
Related Products
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Recently Viewed Products
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $53.67 SGD
- $53.67 SGD
- Unit price
- per
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.