A new book chronicles their experience; the news spoke with Judith about her battle to save footballers for the future.
Bill Gates begged his wife Judith to promise him something when he realized his brain was failing.
“It’s too late for me,” she responded, “but do everything you can to stop this happening to others.”
The former Middlesbrough and England youth defender had given up on football a day before turning 30 in 1974, and since then, he has not headed a ball.
However, the result of all those effects became apparent decades later when the football player who eventually became a businessman passed away from a neurodegenerative illness.