{"id":441318,"date":"2026-01-27T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441318\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:21:07","slug":"scotcast-could-gordon-mcqueens-death-change-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441318\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotcast &#8211; Could Gordon McQueen&#8217;s death change football?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Available for over a year<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-whitespace-pre-line sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">If you\u2019re interested in this episode, you may also like \u2018What would it take to trigger a World Cup boycott?\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002q34v <\/p>\n<p>An inquest has found repeatedly heading a football is &#8216;likely&#8217; to have contributed to the brain disease which was a factor in the death of former Scotland international Gordon McQueen (pictured). <\/p>\n<p>Ex-Dundee defender Jim Duffy and the BBC\u2019s Chris McLaughlin debate whether the laws of football could change to protect players. <\/p>\n<p>Scotcast is the BBC\u2019s Scottish news podcast. This episode is hosted by Martin Geissler. <\/p>\n<p>Get in touch: scotcast@bbc.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002qgtg\" aria-label=\"Programme Website of Could Gordon McQueen&#039;s death change football?\" data-testid=\"programme-website-link\" class=\"sw-group sw-inline-flex sw-items-center sw-pt-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Programme Website<\/a>Show less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Available for over a year If you\u2019re interested in this episode, you may also like \u2018What would it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-441318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}