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Daily Mirror
4 days ago
- Health
- Daily Mirror
Hayley McQueen's turmoil over 18-month wait for dad Gordon's death certificate
Hayley McQueen's father Gordon passed away in June 2023 at the age of 70, two years after being diagnosed with vascular dementia, with an inquest into his death yet to take place Sky Sports presenter Hayley McQueen's wait for her father Gordon's death certificate has now incredibly passed 18 months. He was best known for his successful career as a football player, which saw him represent Manchester United, Leeds United and Scotland. In June 2023, Sky Sports presenter Hayley revealed her father had passed away, two years after being diagnosed with vascular dementia. At the start of 2025, Northallerton Coroners Court announced there would be an inquest into McQueen's passing, which will examine the effect of heading the ball throughout his career, while also scrutinising the nature of the goals he scored. The McQueen family has openly voiced their concerns about the potential link between heading footballs and his dementia. Nearly half a year since the inquest began, Hayley has spoken up about the upsetting delay her family is facing in getting the death certificate, as a result of the inquest. Speaking on the Ainslie + Ainslie Performance People podcast, when asked to confirm that her family have still not been given a death certificate, she said: "Yes. We are still waiting for the cause of death and whether it's ruled as industrial disease." Hayley offered up McQueen's brain for scientific research to Professor William Stewart, who had significant involvement in the 2021 government investigation into sports-related brain injuries. She added: "I was in contact with him before and we discussed a few things. I'd had to get quite a matter of fact about things, but I was like 'Oh, my dad does want to donate his brain to medical science.' "We did that privately, but our local coroner determined that he wanted to open an inquest because on my Dad's death certificate - well he doesn't have a death certificate – the interim cause of death, when you're issued a certificate to be able to deal with banking issues and things like that, was down as pneumonia. "My dad did not die from pneumonia. He was bed bound and because of the liquid intake, it was a complication. Eventually, that took him." While explaining what Professor Stewart discovered while looking at her father's brain, she added: "Everything points towards the heading of the football. "There is CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) that Professor Stewart found. He's just the most wonderful and incredible man, and he sat with us and broke down everything in the post-mortem." In 2019, research from the Football Association and the Professional Footballers' Association highlighted that football players are 3.5 times more susceptible to degenerative brain diseases. The inquiry into McQueen's death is yet to receive a starting date, as the coroner Jon Heath said they must locate the ex-defender's medical records from 1972 to 1995 before moving forward with the inquiry. There's still no word on when the inquest will happen. But after Hayley's discussion with Professor Stewart, the family's resolve to uncover more details about the death has only intensified. She added: "It spurred us on. We were like 'Okay, we're going to fight this fight.' We haven't done it for any kind of litigation, we just want information. "I would love to know that, if they think it was from the heading of the football, that the information was really powerful, to make the authorities and people in football really start to pay attention to the fact that you can get brain damage from heading a football." Join our new MAN UTD WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Manchester United content from Mirror Football. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice.
Telegraph
04-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Gabby Logan insists Match of the Day ‘all about football' after BBC replaced Gary Lineker
Gabby Logan has vowed that Match of the Day will be 'all about the football' when she replaces Gary Lineker as part of a three-strong presenting team. The BBC's flagship football programme will have Logan sharing hosting duties with Mark Chapman and Kelly Cates from the start of next season, with Lineker quitting after 26 years. Lineker said upon announcing he was stepping down that the corporation planned to make changes to the show when its new contract for the rights to Premier League football began in August. But Logan told the Ainslie + Ainslie Performance People podcast: 'Nobody wants to throw the baby out with the bath water. It's a football highlights show, we've got the same kind of pundits… and it's all about the football.' She also revealed the lengths to which she and her co-hosts went to keep news of their appointment secret ahead of January's official announcement, including forming a WhatsApp group in which they altered the settings to delete messages between them automatically. 'I didn't even tell my mum,' Logan said, revealing that the only person she confided in was her husband. 'I set up a group chat and called it, 'The Match of the Day three', and there were disappearing messages as Chappers was really paranoid about this. The only person I told was Kenny!' Logan and Cates will become the show's first permanent female presenters and the 51-year-old also said broadcasting was a 'completely different landscape' for women working in sport, both in front of and behind the camera. 'There are now so many great male and female broadcasters,' she added. 'But also, so many more females working in sports, not just in front of the camera or the microphone, but also behind the scenes. 'It's like any business. If you say we have a 50-50 male and female split but all the women are doing the low-paid jobs, that's not 50-50; that's a hierarchy that's male-dominated. 'It's been really good development to hear women's voices in your ears and hearing them say they're the director which is great.
