Jones says he developed numerous signs after being commonly concussed throughout coaching and matches.

Chatting with BBC Sport from Malaysia, the place he and his household now dwell, he stated: “I seen that if I used to be doing easy duties, like making my youngsters a bottle of water, making an attempt to pour it and making an attempt to regular my hand, placing a card within the card machine, placing the keys within the door, I simply could not cease my shaking,” he stated.

“And that is when issues progressively began to worsen; complications, mind fog, neck ache, eye ache… I am delicate to gentle and to noise, anxiousness, despair.

“The scariest factor I discover is being unable to manage my feelings. That terrifies me. I address it by simply taking myself away. It has been on the detriment typically of our marriage and me being a father and to my mates… I very a lot isolate myself.

“I might by no means let my youngsters play, and that is a extremely unhappy factor.”

Jones’ spouse Olivia instructed BBC Sport that the modifications in her husband’s character have been “very gradual at first” however grew to become “inconceivable to disregard”.

“He went from being assured, energetic, and current to being withdrawn, irritable, forgetful – and he simply appeared to be continually in ache,” she stated.

“And he usually complained about struggling with complications, mind fog, and anxiousness, and it grew to become fairly scary for me.”