'It was treated like a weakness if you don’t dust yourself down and carry on'

Adam Hughes and Neil Spence are the latest players to join a legal action over brain injuries caused by playing rugbyAt 30 years of age, Hughes is the youngest of the players to go public. His diagnosis is thus different: brain injuries and post-concussion syndrome, rather than dementia with probable CTE, but the neurologists have told him he is on the same path as the others. If so – and little is certain with the brain – it is only a matter of time. Related: Two more former players named in dementia action against rugby authorities Related: The Breakdown | Rugby union needs to be about spon…