BBC · May 26, 2024
The Middlesbrough footballer's widow trying to save future players
Image caption, Bill and Judith, pictured on their 50th wedding anniversary, had been together since they were teenagers By Duncan Leatherdale
BBC News
Judith Gates spent years watching her ex-professional footballer husband Bill disintegrate, his brain damaged by the game he loved. As a new book tells their story, the BBC spoke to Judith about her fight to save future footballers.
When Bill Gates realised his brain was failing, he implored his wife Judith to make him a promise.
"It's too late for me," he told her, "but do everything you can to stop this happening to others."