Adam Clarke

Pro Garage designer - it's really a thing!
NTFC supporter/dragon keeper/Matchday volunteer, wannabe baller with shooting like a top quality subuteo defender

[Northampton Town @ntfc]

🏉 Good luck to all at @SaintsRugby for tonight's Prem play-off game.

🤝 Go well guys!

#ShoeArmy 👞

[It's All Cobblers To Me @CobblersToMe]

I spy with my little eye 👀

[Larry @lryansport]

Northampton Saints have now won more league games at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium than Tottenham have in 2026 😇

[Adam Clarke @AdamClarke9]

Dyche is properly crap #ntfc

[Adam Clarke @AdamClarke9]

Swyer is NOT a RWB! #ntfc

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@Nigel_Farage

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@CobblersToMe Eavesy Eavesy Eavesy

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@CobblersToMe What we deserved!

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@jessgill03 Not a strong shout for christmas number 1....

[Northampton Town @ntfc]

#ShoeArmy 👞

#CelebrityTraitors

[Adam Clarke @AdamClarke9]

@CobblersToMe 1-2
Hoskins
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[Adam Clarke @AdamClarke9]

@CobblersToMe Edwards survives game

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Suicide.

I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis.

You take a rope.
You put it up in a garage or a tree nearby or far away.
You're thinking about every loved one you'll leave behind as you put that rope around your neck.
Then you drop.

Some are decapitated.
Some aren't.
All are found by someone who has a lifetime of trauma that will never leave them.
A son.
A daughter.
A brother.
A sister.
A mother.
A father.

I know 2 men who hung themselves.

One was found by his Mom.
One was found by his brother.
Neither have recovered fully. 20 and 30 years on.

A life sentence for people who were already worrying, terrified their loved one may do something.

So just visualise the above and ask, "is there another way"?

A segway for a moment.

I do a few Q&A's every year. Tales of yesterday with a 99% male audience of my age group.

After the stories and fun, my last question back to the audience is..

"Hands up if you struggle with a mental health issue".

Nobody ever puts a hand up. Despite 1 in every 3 of 500 attendees statistically struggling.

"Ah, nobody, that's fucking brilliant! Well I do! ". I then graphically tell people, stunned into silence about how a rope around my neck in the middle of nowhere jolted me to go home and cry like a baby to my Mom.

After the Q&A has finished, something always happens. I'll be chatting to a few guys, saying bye and one by one, men will come over and whisper " I struggle".

Or my mailbox the next day will have 30 emails from guys, their partners or kids saying " Dad/Uncle /Brother was there last night and what you said hit them hard".

And that's how some people realise that it's time to speak to a pal or family member or even rant to me in an email. It works, I often get a follow up email a year or 6 later saying that they took responsibility for their suicidal feelings and are now flying.

Humans are programmed to want to live, to have families and to keep the species growing and thriving. So for a human to want to short circuit that desire isn't normal, and it should never be spoken of as normal. It's the ultimate red flag.

If you suspect your mate, Dad, Brother, Uncle is struggling mentally, they deserve your intervention.

They deserve a " are you OK, please tell me what's up".

They deserve an opportunity to get past wanting to hang a rope over a tree or in a garage and slowly struggle until they die and you find them.

If you've been there and trust me I have plenty, then you'll know that text out of the blue, or a footie mate or one of your kids asking jow you are can open the curtains to some sunshine.

Because when suicide is your only answer, the room is already dark, and you can't see a way out.

So please, fucking pretty please, ask that husband, Dad, Uncle, Cousin, footie pal TODAY how they are.

You may be shocked what comes back but extremely glad that you asked.

For those who struggle, you're not alone.

[Adam Clarke @AdamClarke9]

@CobblersToMe Tortured by turquoise

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@RupertLowe10 There's a bike for sale in my village thats been posted on FB. Please feel free to comment your opinion on every single post on the Internet

[Adam Clarke @AdamClarke9]

@James_ChronNTFC Dyche going on up front

[Auntie Bex ✨ @Bexxy1976]

@AdamClarke9 @James_ChronNTFC Wondered this myself as we do seem to be away a LOT more than home🤔 Turns out last time was 2018 with a 1-1 v Swindon. Before that it was 2014 v Bury and 2011 v Burton which both ended 2-3🙈 Last H win was 2006 v Cheltenham (2-0) Only five home Boxing Day games in last 20 years!

[Adam Clarke @AdamClarke9]

@NTFCNathan @ntfc I make this comment every year it seems, haven't had a home game for years!

[Barrow AFC @BarrowAFC]

Can we have our ball back please? 🙏

#WeAreBarrow

[Adam Clarke @AdamClarke9]

@CobblersToMe Wet and sunburnt
Get Costello in