WHAT’S IT LIKE TO … SUFFER FROM EARLY ONSET DEMENTIA
Aug 02, 2022
4 minutes
Words Alan Pearey
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Getty Images & Steve Thompson
AT TIMES it was possible to forget that he has early onset dementia, a condition that has ripped his life asunder. Steve Thompson not only arrived bang on time for our rendezvous, at a hotel in Hartford close to his Cheshire home, but then spoke movingly and with barely a pause for two-and-a-half hours.
As Thompson has detailed in his powerful book , there are vast chunks of his rugby career that he cannot recall. It includes the whole of 2003 when England won the World Cup and Thompson was shortlisted for World Player of the Year. Sir Clive Woodward
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