Sir Bobby Charlton's family hit by more tragedy two years on from Jack's sad death
player was so ill with advanced dementia that the 85-year-old couldn’t attend Gordon’s farewell.
Jack’s son John, 63, said: “Gordon died about a month ago, of cancer, and he had dementia. Tommy, who is the youngest brother – he’s got dementia. Bobby was too unwell to go, but my mother went. It’s never nice when anybody dies – it was one of the family.”John spoke about Gordon’s death whilst at his home in Cambois, Northumberland. He touched on how the dementia has now hit all four Charlton siblings.The 63-year-old encourages drive for more research into a link between headers and dementia.
There has been widespread speculation Jack’s dementia was linked to his repeated football headers – with several of England’s ’66 World Cup winning squad having been diagnosed with and died from neurodegenerative diseases.
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