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TEAM-MATES, charities and loved ones have demanded more help for footie legends with dementia amid concerns they are missing out on aid available to ex-stars in England.
Hundreds of families of former players battling the condition down south have benefited from a £1.5million fund set up with English Premier League cash but there is no comparable scheme here.
The pleas for support come after Scotland’s joint-top goalscorer Denis Law and ex-Aberdeen boss Jimmy Calderwood last month became the latest heroes to lose their fights with the memory-robbing disease.
Battle Against Dementia charity chief Douglas McCluskey, 54, urged game bosses to find more cash — amid links between heading a football repeatedly and brain damage.
He has campaigned alongside the family of former Celtic captain and manager Billy McNeill, who bravely fought dementia for nine years before his death aged 79 in 2019.
Their Billy Against Dementia fund have raised tens of thousands of pounds via raffles, T-shirt sales, charity golf tournaments and gala dinners but much more is needed.
Douglas told The Scottish Sun on Sunday: “There’s a whole generation of legendary names who have went on to get dementia.
“We might not know for decades whether the current generation of players will fare any better.
“Not enough support is available for them. Football is big business and those who profit most could be doing more.”
The Brain Health Fund was set up by the English Professional Footballers’ Association in 2023 after top-flight chiefs donated £1million.
Bosses handed over a further £500,000 last year and pledged to take on the costs of ex-professionals already receiving help.
Former Celtic striker Frank McAvennie, 65, who was part of McNeill’s double-winning Hoops side in 1988, backed demands for similar support for Scots icons.
It is a cause close to his heart as mum Jean fought dementia before her death aged 80 in 2007.
And he is set to join celebrities — including Still Game’s Sanjeev Kohli, Rangers great Ally McCoist and former Ibrox boss Graeme Souness — for Alzheimer Scotland’s Soccer Aid-style Shooting Stars charity match at Falkirk Stadium next month.
Recalling his inspirational former gaffer’s health battle, Macca said: “Billy was a big man who always kept himself fit and anybody can get it if he can.
“It’s disgraceful that there’s so little help for players and their families.
“Charities are doing their best but they need help.
“Politicians, governing bodies, the league and the players’ union need to try and find the money. Think of all the good that could be done if we had anything like the support they do in England.”
Campaigners have pushed for dementia to be classified as an industrial injury.
And scientists at Glasgow University found players were three-and-a-half times as likely to be diagnosed.
That rose to five times for defenders who would repeatedly make headed clearances, like Lisbon Lion McNeill or Scotland and Manchester United icon Gordon McQueen, who died in 2023.
Following the academics’ report the SFA recommended banning headers from kids’ training sessions while stars were ordered not to head the ball in the 24 hours before games.
And experts have called for retired players to receive regular brain scans.
Campaigner Amanda Kopel, 74, recalled how her husband struggled to get support after being diagnosed with dementia at just 59.
Frank Kopel had played more than 400 games for Dundee United, Man United and Blackburn Rovers.
After his death in 2014 aged 65, Amanda spent years campaigning for Frank’s Law — which was enacted at Holyrood in 2019 and guarantees free personal care for under-65s.
She said: “We got absolutely no help when Frankie was diagnosed except one hour of free counselling.
“It felt like a slap in the face. We kept hearing there was no money for services and nothing seems to have moved forward in the 17 years since.
“I’ll never stop demanding change because the players putting their bodies and lives on the line to entertain are being failed.
“I’ll never forget Frankie turning to me and saying, ‘It’s too late for me, but you need to keep going to help the other lads.’
“That’s why I keep going.”
Former SNP Commons leader Ian Blackford and ex-Scottish Tories leader Douglas Ross previously teamed to secure a parliamentary debate on the links between dementia and sport in 2023.
Hibs fan Ian told of his frustration over how stars of yesteryear were being failed after retiring with little or no savings.
He said: “Few of the iconic players who made our game what it is today made much money.
“Most earned an average industrial wage, certainly nothing like the millions top players make now, and they are suffering many years after their playing days ended.
“We must push for dementia suffered by players to be classed as an industrial injury, which would allow greater access to support.
“The way so many legends are treated when they become ill is just not good enough.”
Top-level footie assistant referee and MP Mr Ross admitted it was “heartbreaking” to see the game’s greats struck down.
He said: “The science is clear that those who regularly headed a football have an increased risk of suffering from this cruel illness.
That’s why I fully support efforts to have dementia reclassified as an industrial injury for ex-players.
“I’d also encourage the Scottish PFA to consider setting up a fund for ex-players affected, as the English PFA have done.”
The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council said “current scientific evidence is insufficient” to link heading footballs to dementia but has pledged to investigate.
Alzheimer Scotland chief executive Henry Simmons said: “Ex-professional players face a much increased risk of dementia.
“We would be supportive of any efforts by the football community to set up a dedicated fund.”
PFA Scotland was approached.
The SFA declined to comment.
A MYSTERY woman seen leaving a celeb nightspot with Jack Grealish is ex-model Emma Silverton, The Sun on Sunday can reveal.
The Manchester City and England star was followed by Emma out of the Chiltern Firehouse in central London.
New dad Grealish, who was with pal Jaydon Gibbs, was heard shouting, “She’s not with me”, before doubling back inside.
He re-emerged to get into a chauffeur-driven car.
Witnesses said Emma then popped her head out of the window of a black cab to ask: “Are you guys coming or not?”
Gibbs, whose twin Kieran is a former Arsenal defender, told the cab driver to “follow that car” before getting inside.
The next day Grealish, 29, celebrated Valentine’s Day with girlfriend Sasha Attwood, who gave birth to his daughter in September.
Emma used to work as a hostess at the Chiltern Firehouse, looking after high- profile guests discreetly.
The Brit was on the books of a New York modelling agency for six years and worked for designers including Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, Sonia Rykiel and Burberry.
For the last three years 5ft 11in Emma has worked as a freelance photographer, and on film and music video projects.
Jack and influencer Sasha, 29, share a £6million mansion in Cheshire.
Emma was approached for comment.
ANORA is the movie that’s bringing sex back to the Oscars after years of strait-laced stuffiness.
Its Bafta-winning leading lady Mikey Madison has told how she went to a gruelling “stripper boot camp” to train for her racy role as Russian-American club performer Anora “Ani” Mikheeva.
The 25-year-old — who won the Leading Actress gong at the London bash last week, with the film now tipped for Oscar glory — spent months researching her role, including learning pole-dancing and twerking, to make it as realistic as possible.
She said: “There were less sex scenes and more sex shots — and I think there was a lot of humour involved in it as well. It was a very positive experience for me, but also my character is a sex worker.
“It requires a lot of her body and her skin. I think she wears her nudity more like a costume.
“She presents herself in this hypersexualised way because it is how she makes a living.
“And it’s just what she has to do.”
Los Angeles-born Mikey also told Variety’s Actors On Actors podcast: “I started working on the physicality of the character, because she’s a dancer.
“I did quite a bit of pole training and I did this stripper boot camp where I was taught how to give lap dances and how to twerk, which is such an important part of strip club culture and is something I didn’t know how to do.”
Until her surprise Bafta win caused the biggest upset of the night last Sunday, Mikey had been seen as the Cinderella of the awards season, losing out time and again to Demi Moore for her role in quirky horror film The Substance.
But since Anora won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last May, speculation that Mikey will also get an Oscar on March 2 has now reached fever pitch, while the film itself is favourite to pick up the Best Picture award.
No movie with such provocative sexual content has landed the Academy’s top prize in the past.
Whatever the outcome, for Mikey the experience of making the movie — directed by independent film-maker Sean Baker — has been positive.
She said: “Genuinely, this film has changed my life, not just because of all this stuff happening, but just the experience of making the film, the experience of collaborating with Sean.”
Mikey, who has a twin brother and two sisters, was raised by her psychologist parents in the San Fernando Valley, an unfashionable suburb of LA.
She competed as a horse rider before switching to acting at the age of 14, even though there were no actors in the family.
She played Manson Family member Susan “Sadie” Atkins in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 comedy drama Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and teenage killer Amber Freeman in the 2022 horror flick Scream.
But she remained a relative unknown until Sean offered her the lead role in Anora as soon as he met her.
Mikey recalled: “We had coffee, we chatted, he pitched me a very loose idea for what the script might be. “It was more of a Russian gangster film.
“But there was still the same storyline of essentially a young woman who realises that she married the wrong man when it’s too late.
“He said, ‘I haven’t written this yet, but if you want to do it, I will write it for you’. And I said, ‘Absolutely, I would love to’.
“There’s a part of me — even though he had offered me the role and I accepted during our coffee meeting — where I was like, ‘Oh, do I actually really still have the role?’ And so I made my agent reach out and ask, just to triple-check.”
Mikey spent months honing every detail of the character, from learning Russian to shopping for clothes and even choosing the fake nails, declaring that Anora’s life was “a completely different universe in every single way” to her own.
She said: “My favourite thing in the whole world is film-making, so to be a part of it, making a film like Anora, was just really freaking special. I had to bring this character to life, to really build her from the ground up.
“Sean really cared about what I had to say, and listened. “I remember maybe a month into knowing him, I was like, “I’m really going to have to let go of my impostor syndrome and just embrace this process because I’m realising how much he actually cares about my opinion.
“I had to try to immerse myself as much as possible. I read memoirs written by sex workers, I spoke to consultants that were brought on to the film, I went to clubs, I shadowed dancers, I got dances.
“I was trained by a dancer based in Los Angeles so I could try to represent them as best as possible.
“Eventually it all just kind of came together to form the character.
“I had been doing months and months of really serious dance training and pole training.
“And there came a point where it was a couple of weeks to filming and I was like, ‘I should maybe send Sean a couple of videos so he knows what I have been up to this past four months’.”
Mikey says she formed a strong bond with Russian co-star Mark Eydelshteyn, who portrays playboy Vanya Zakharov on screen.
She said: “There was an instant connection. He’s very charming but there was definitely, at the beginning, a really big language barrier.
This film has changed my life. It was really freaking special. I had to let go of my imposter syndrome and build this character from the ground up’
Mikey Madison
“Maybe the second day we knew each other, he was trying to tell me this story, saying he was looking out of this big window and he was like, ‘And the whole world was on the tip of my nipple’.
“I was like, ‘I think you’re trying to say something else’, and he said, ‘No, no, no, the tip of my nipple’.
“I was like, ‘OK!’ I think he was trying to say the whole world was in the palm of his hand.
“We really quickly had to build trust with each other, and we did. It was a pleasure working with him.”
Mikey also filmed her own stunts, including a brutal fight scene in which she told Sean: “The more brawl, the better.”
She said: “There’s vases being kicked and lamps falling over — a pretty crazy situation. And so that was really tightly choreographed and it sometimes felt like we were shooting it for ever.”
A special screening for sex workers was held in the States, and Mikey said: “We filled an entire theatre with people from that community.
“It really meant a lot to me that I represented that community, even in just a small way.
“Girls were coming up to me afterwards saying, ‘This happened to my friend’, or, ‘Oh my gosh, you remind me so much of my best friend at the club’, or, ‘I love this film’.”
And in her Bafta acceptance speech last week, Mikey showed her support for the community, saying: “You deserve respect and human decency. I will always be your ally, and I urge others to do the same.”
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972): It caused outrage for a scene where Marlon Brando, 38, rapes Maria Schneider, 19. Despite two Oscar nominations it won nothing.
AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999): Kevin Spacey plays a man infatuated with his teen daughter’s friend (Mena Suvari). It scooped five Oscars, despite a controversial masturbation scene.
MONSTER’S BALL (2001): Halle Berry strips naked for explicit role with Billy Bob Thornton, including one lengthy orgasm scene. Two Oscar nods, and Halle won for Best Actress.
