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MOTDx’s Abbie McCarthy heads to a silent five-a-side football match in London with FC Not Alone, a team which hopes to encourage conversations around mental health.
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even when they told me the concept of
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playing without talking i was like how
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are we going to do that yeah but then
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it’s to kind of reflect how we in
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society don’t like
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don’t always share how we feel
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[Music]
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so ian today a silent football game
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interested to see how this one
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plays out obviously the silence is kind
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of symbolizing the internal struggles
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that people go through
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with their mental health you’re here
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proudly repping of course for your club
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fc not alone why did you set it up in
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the first place
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so i set up fc not alone with my cousin
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on the back of his struggles with mental
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health i had also had
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mental health issues i didn’t really
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have a label for them i didn’t really
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understand them too much we tried to
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turn a very negative situation into
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something a bit more positive
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i think there’s been a real shift in
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football as well hasn’t there on a
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professional level with some big players
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talking out about their own struggles
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and that’s so
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important to people isn’t it i mean that
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happens in every workplace that people
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sadly feel like they can’t speak up
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because they’re worried
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what might happen to their career so
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that is only natural what happens in
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football
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jesse lingard his confidence seems to be
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flying high at the moment and it’s well
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documented that he was open about some
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of the things that he had gone through
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obviously everyone has
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highs and lows and um you know my lows
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have been you know really low the game’s
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about to kick off
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so let’s get moving shall we yeah we
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better go got to line the team up i’ve
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caught friend of match the day x big zoo
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in the warm up right let’s go put my
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head down oh come on
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so silent football game all about the
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silent struggle that people go through
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with their mental health
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super important to be here today isn’t
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it of course yeah it’s good to kind of
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talk about issues
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like this you know you normally don’t
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kind of think about things like this
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you’re kind of just trying to
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get a top bins you know i mean so even
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when they told me the concept of playing
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without talking i was like how are we
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going to do that yeah but then it’s to
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kind of reflect how we in society
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don’t like don’t always share how we
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[Music]
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feel
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it’s so weird to watch they’re all
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struggling to pass because they’re not
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communicating i feel like the only
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person may be enjoying the match so far
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is the rep because he’s not getting an
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airport you know
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they’re only managing to get like one or
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two passes before the game kind of
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falls apart and i think it brings it
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back to the message that it’s really
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important to talk
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and to share you can’t go at life
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yes matthew good game how you feeling
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kind of getting my breath back to be
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honest with you felt kind of tense
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watching i’ll be honest it was tense it
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was tense to play as well because i
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think everyone was kind of screaming
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in their head almost like normally where
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you’d be like give me the ball going
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or find me find me and then you had to
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hold all of that in it’s definitely
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powerful and i think the message of you
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know how important communication is
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both on the pitch and off the pitch is
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uh was definitely a
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show it doesn’t have to be a somber chat
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um about mental health even
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playing five sides there are so many
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ways of
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communicating for me i was waiting to
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return to football after lockdown i was
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like i need football right now i’m not
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in a good state you know
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since i came back i’m feeling quite good
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and confident you know
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we function like a regular football team
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and it’s more just having knowledge that
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if you were
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to want to share and kind of confide in
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someone you have this supportive
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background and supportive teammates and
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it’s a safe
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a safe space thank you so much i’ll let
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you go and get in the ice bath and
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recover
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i need it get a pint as possible
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you
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