Lipman’s concussion diary shows the problem

JACKSON PETERTHE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOWBy his own admission, Michael Lipman estimates to have been knocked out 30 times over the course of a 13-year professional career. During his last season in the Premiership, the former England flanker suffered five bouts of concussion.The traumatic events of his final months at Bath paint a disturbing picture of a club captain considered by some as too brave for his own good.January 25, 2009 at The Rec, Heineken Cup pool stage: Bath v Toulouse. Seventeen minutes into the match, on a pitch reduced to a paddy field by hailstorms and t...

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