Stan Bowles is now cared for by his daughter, Andria, and despite moments of clarity is unable to recall his long career in football. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian View more sharing options Shares 2,244 Comments 257 Ed Vulliamy Wednesday 8 March 2017 10.59 GMT Last modified on Wednesday 8 March 2017 22.00 GMT T he smile has not changed, as puckish as it always was; nor has the mischievous glint in Stanley Bowles’s sea-blue eyes. I remember it all like yesterday, when Bowles bedazzled football, weaving, winding through a humiliated defence yet again, in the hoops of Queens Park Rangers, atop the league, back in the 1970s. Footballers could be at risk of dementia from blows to the head, study suggests Read more But at a pub in his native Manchester, Stan himself remembers none of this. His Alzheimer’s disease is now, as they say, “100%”, both sides of the brain, “and something at t...