Kevin Moore
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Kevin Moore

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Dr Kevin Moore was the founding director of the National Football Museum for England, and now advises football and sport museums around the world. He is on the editorial board of the world-leading academic journal for football, Soccer and Society, and holds a key honorary role at the Chinese Football Museum.

Kevin’s latest book, Heading for Trouble: Football’s head impact crisis – and how we save the game, explores the fascinating history of heading in football and the dangerous, frequently tragic consequences it can cause. Explaining how minor impacts, such as heading, can lead to neurodegenerative brain disease, the book highlights the football establishment’s inaction and exposes what may by the game’s greatest ever scandal. Heading for Trouble brings this urgent issue into sharp focus and explores how football can move forward without such tragic cost to its players.

Kevin wrote the acclaimed book What You Think You Know About Football is Wrong: The Global Game’s Greatest Myths and Untruths. Kevin is also an academic, who contributed to and co-edited the books the Routledge Handbook of Football Studies, Sport in Museums, Sport, History and Heritage, and Museums and Popular Culture. He has authored many academic papers on football history and sport in in museums. Kevin is a lifelong football and cricket fan.

Kevin is delighted with the highly positive endorsements he has received for his latest book, Heading for Trouble, which include Dr Bennet Omalu, forensic pathologist, whose discovery of CTE in American football players is told in the film Concussion; David Goldblatt, author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football; Jeremy Wilson, Chief Sports Reporter, The Telegraph; Sam Peters, author of the award winning book, Concussed; Sport’s Uncomfortable Truth; Dawn Astle MBE, The Jeff Astle Foundation; Dr Sally Tucker, Head for Change Trustee; Dr. Judith Gates, Chair and Co-founder, Head Safe Football; Luke Griggs, Chief Executive of Headway – the brain injury association; Professor Jean Williams; Professor Fiona Skillen; Emeritus Professor Tony Collins; Professor Stephen T. Casper; Professor Matthew Taylor; Professor John Hughson; Dr Neil Carter; Dr Reece Granger; and documentary producer Alan Golding.
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