Dameerto wrote:
Or the Armed Forces - last year more men/women took their own lives after serving in Afghanistan/Iraq than were killed on active duty. Maybe they should just pull themselves together too?
Good point.
I suppose the focus on football is simply because it bucks the lazy image of overpaid pampered millionaires and brings back into focus that at the heart of everything, just like I said strongly about how players react to a tyrannical manager having nothing to do with money and everything to do with human nature, depression is the same phenomenon.
It should be a wake up call to some of the stupid things we hear football fans come out with directing abuse particularly at their own players that they are after all people with the same range of emotions as us.
Those who say that life is easier when you are earning a squillion pounds a week havent got a clue. Having moved abroad recently my wife and I have quadrupled our income and after a few years we will have enough put by for a very very comfortable life neither of us would have dreamed of a few years ago. We have the sun, the sea, the healthy lifestyle and an active social life, but to ignore the impact of not having your family around is huge - my wife copes, but every now and again has a mini-breakdown for a day or so as to how she doesnt think she fan stick it as she misses friends, family etc.
Our jobs dont pay as much as footballers, but outwardly you wouldnt know. You could all say that our life outwardly is one anyone would love to have, but as many on here will testify the main reason for people leaving the expat life is some form of depression whether it be isolation, struggling to fit in, not liking the food, a whole host of things that we take for granted from footballers, and thats without even considering the high professional standards many set themselves which puts them there in the first place
Bosnians are still spastics though, so im told.