Dennis Law

Dennis Law has been diagnosed with dementia.  Another footballer from our past.  Very sad.  A great footballer.  

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Dennis Law has been diagnosed with dementia.  Another footballer from our past.  Very sad.  A great footballer.  

Very sad indeed.

It's actually Denis with only 1 N though. The reason this sticks in my mind is that Dennis Bergkamp has said in the past that he is named after Denis Law but the Dutch authorites would not accept the name Denis with only 1 N.

Very sad news.

One of the real characters in football in the 60s and 70s.

One of the all time greatest British footballers. And with Best and Charlton formed one of the greatest forward lines the game has ever seen.

One of the few to held in equal high esteem on both sides of Manchester.

a true Legend.

Awful disease.

Agreed, a great footballer. What happened to that conveyor belt of great Scottish talent we saw in the 20th century? Did they just stand still while the rest of the world caught up and overtook them?

Deep-fried curly-wurlies.

Very sad news, will be fondly remembered for that legendary back heel that relegated Nearmanchester United in 1974.

Thoughts are with him.

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Very sad news, will be fondly remembered for that legendary back heel that relegated Nearmanchester United in 1974.

Thoughts are with him.

That's a common misconception. Man United would have been relegated anyway, whether Law scored that goal or not.

Sad news indeed. All these footballing hero greats of past days, with this horrible disease. Hopefully one day something can prevent or totally slow down the deterioration at the very least.

My dad used to mention Denis Law in the old football days. I see when he was at Huddersfield, Bill Shankly was there manager, we played them 6 times, winning 3 and losing 3. I've found the Grimsby Town players who scored against them, Maddison, Reeson, Scott, Evans, Rafferty (2), Cullen (2), I guess Law played in most of those games, I wonder if he scored h'mm? .

Quoted from Les Brechin

That's a common misconception. Man United would have been relegated anyway, whether Law scored that goal or not.

Technically yes Les, but nobody leaving Old Trafford at the time realised till later that evening.

My uncle John (RIP) was there that day, and quoted Gerald Sinstadt ‘Denis has done it’ sporadically, at family get togethers & Christmas’s as a kid.

I have a random memory from the 1960s that a United fan had a jacket with “Law is King” on the back of it in big letters.   A football reporter said that he was not a fan of the criminal justice system but that it related to the player. ☺️

Former Liverpool star Terry McDermott diagnosed with dementia too.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Former Liverpool star Terry McDermott diagnosed with dementia too.

[url]https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/aug/22/liverpool-great-terry-mcdermott-diagnosed-with-dementia[/url]

I watched the film Concussion (2015) last night. Not seen it before - scary stuff for anyone playing American Football. But actually it's not concussion that is the problem - it's the thousands of non-concussive impacts to the head from big super athletes smashing into each other. See this about rugby [url]https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2021/aug/06/rugbys-problems-run-much-deeper-than-concussion-from-the-odd-big-hit[/url]. Both my sons played rugby all through school and into senior rugby. Tackling starts at Under 9s. If I'd watched that film or read that article when they started age 6, I would have thought twice about them playing - alot of Mums now reading that would probably just say straight no. With pro-rugby, the players have just got too big since professionalism - some of them look like another species. Watch a game from the 90s and they just look like 15 normal blokes - some fat ones in the front row, normal big feckers in the second row and at no.8 and the rest just good athletic build. So with football it's heading thousands of times in your youth and then as a professional [url]https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jan/16/can-football-headers-lead-to-dementia-the-evidence-is-growing[/url] - it feels like a bit of timebomb for these sports at the moment.