Manager Des Buckingham and midfielder Will Vaulks spoke at Oxford United's first mental health workshop - it will change and save lives
Manager Des Buckingham and midfielder Will Vaulks spoke at Oxford United's first mental health workshop - it will change and save livesHull City
Oxford United wanted to pay tribute to Jack and, during the 24th minute of their home game against Burnley on 28 September, a minute’s applause rang around the Kassam. Throughout the game, managerwore a black hooded jumper with a message, “Boys get sad too”. That it became a news story in itself would only help to raise more awareness.
The room on Monday evening is diverse. It contains the young and the old, women and men, small groups and those who have come on their own. Some participants will be there because they are looking for help for their own mental health, others because they are seeking tools to help others close to them and some simply wanting to know how to help anyone at all. The audience contains supporters, members of the wider community, Oxford United players and club employees.
Were this a community hall down the road, the turnout would not be the same. That is the power of a football club. They are deeply important pillars of their community and they are important to enough people that they become influential. They can be leaders of social change as well as facilitators of it.Oxford United’s three-sided stadium. Watching in from the outside is like peeking in at someone else’s joy, like seeing into a lounge from the street on Christmas Eve.
“Football has to make peace with that power. My main thing is that we cannot just talk; there has to be action. We have to put systems in place, through that action, that tries to stop people taking their own lives. That’s my mission.”
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