Meet the 25-year-old who's trying to stop footballers getting dementia

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Aged just 25, Dr Ieuan Phillips discovered something no scientist had previously considered and he hopes it can be "a moment of genuine change" in football. Shut inside during lockdown, he had been reading studies about the increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases among footballers and he wanted to know what was happening to their brains when they headed the ball. Phillips began his PhD at Loughborough University and what it revealed five years later shocked experts in the field. When