Mental health no longer a secret folded away in sport’s dressing rooms | Richard Williams


Danny Rose has been open in tackling his demons and that can only be a good thing in the wider world

Danny Rose remembered getting angry. He’d suffered his first really serious injury and the team were doing well without him. “I didn’t socialise, I wasn’t sleeping, I was looking to fall out with anybody.” Gareth Southgate and the Duke of Cambridge were among the small audience listening intently as the Tottenham left-back described the signs of his depression.

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