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- Coroner Alison Mutch ruled that World Cup winner Nobby Stiles died with chronic traumatic encephalopathy caused by repeatedly heading a football.
- The inquest estimated Stiles headed the ball about 140,000 times, with a conservative figure of 136,000.
- Dr Daniel Du Plessis testified the repeated headings caused Stiles’s CTE and severe dementia.
- Mutch said she will file a Prevention of Future Death report to the FA and the Department of Education.
