Alan Jarvis

Alan Jarvis
Personal information
Date of birth (1943-08-04)4 August 1943
Place of birth Wrexham, Wales
Date of death 15 December 2019(2019-12-15) (aged 76)
Place of death Mold, Wales
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1963–1964 Everton 0 (0)
1964–1970 Hull City 153 (12)
1970–1973 Mansfield Town 12 (0)
Total 165 (12)
International career
1966–1967 Wales 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alan Leslie Jarvis (4 August 1943 – 15 December 2019) was a Welsh international footballer.

Career

He played for Everton, Hull City and Mansfield Town; while at Hull City he played 159 matches for the Tigers between 1964 and 1970, scoring 12 goals. He was part of the promotion-winning Hull City side of season 1965-66.

He was part of the Wales national football team between 1966 and 1967, playing 3 matches. He played his first match on 22 October 1966 against Scotland and his last match on 12 April 1967 against Northern Ireland.[1]

After retiring, he returned to North Wales to work as a quantity surveyor.

Personal life

In 2014, it was revealed that Jarvis was in a care home in North Wales, having been diagnosed with an unknown form of dementia. His daughter was quoted as saying her family believed he was suffering from Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).[2] He died on 15 December 2019 in Mold, Flintshire at the age of 76.[3]

His family subsequently donated his brain to medical research being undertaken by Dr William Stuart, a consultant neuropathologist based at the University of Glasgow.[4] In May 2020, at the opening of an inquest into his death at Ruthin, a coroner said it could linked to heading a football and be regarded as an "industrial disease".[5] Coroner John Gittins finally concluded that Jarvis died from Alzheimer's "caused by his occupation as a footballer, heading heavy footballs".[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Wales player database 1872 to 2013". eu-football.info. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  2. ^ "Ex-Hull City star Alan Jarvis 'has brain damage from heading footballs', family says". Hull Daily Mail. 6 December 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2014.[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ "Alan Jarvis". The Leader. 3 January 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Football and dementia: Alan Jarvis' death 'caused by heading balls'". BBC News. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Footballer's inquest to explore dementia link". 1 June 2020 – via www.bbc.co.uk.


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