Concussed: Sam Peters Unveils Rugby's Uncomfortable Truths

Sam Peters is a former national newspaper reporter credited with driving a cultural change in sport's attitude towards brain injuries and concussions. Between 2013 and 2017, Sam was the driving force behind the Mail on Sunday’s concussion in rugby campaign and was subsequently short-listed as sports journalist of the year at the 2014 UK Press Gazette Awards. Sam’s exclusive report in 2014 also revealed the FA’s failure to deliver promised research into the link between heading footballs and dementia following the death of a former England player In his 2023 book, ‘Concussed: Sport’s Uncomfortable Truth’, winner of the Best Sports Writing Award, Sam recounts the untold story of the most influential sports campaign in British newspaper history, asking how rugby and other sports can save themselves from the vested interests which threaten not just players’ livelihoods but the very existence of the sports themselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Concussed: Sam Peters Unveils Rugby's Uncomfortable Truths is an episode from The 1% Podcast hosted by Shay Dalton by Gail Banim.

This episode is 44:49 long.

This episode was published on Nov 6, 2024.

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