A real man puts his family first.
Not often a comment gets me but this one did.
Giving up what you want for the people who need you isn’t weakness—it’s real strength.
Some will laugh at this, some will get defensive, and some will feel this in their gut.
Lads if you are struggling come join the conversation on FB, search:
“Men And Their Emotions”
#BeTheManTheyNeed #WakeUpCall #sobriety #mentalhealth #addiction #mensmentalhealth
RIP Riley 😥
Riley Townsend, from Ashfield, who played for Kirkby Colts FC & @Terversal FC tragically took his own life aged 12, leaving his family and the wider community completely devastated.
12-year-old Riley had been diagnosed with ADHD and autism and was struggling, he was described as "polite and kind" but had "had enough" and took his own life on Sunday, September 1.
The day after his death, a GoFundMe was launched to help his family cover funeral expenses. (Link in comments)
Fundraiser organisers Jodie Draycott and Abi Hill said: “His parents are afraid they can’t afford to give him the send off he deserves, so we are asking people to find it in their hearts to help this family through this very painful time.”
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Riley's parents, family, club and teammates.
Where to get help if you're struggling
You don't have to suffer in silence if you're struggling with your mental health, or just need to talk. Here are some groups you can contact when you need help.
Samaritans: Phone 116 123, 24 hours a day, text SHOUT to 85258 or email [email protected], in confidence
Childline: Phone 0800 1111. Calls are free and won't show up on your bill.
MIND: Phone 0300 123 3393 for information about how to access mental health support. You can also email [email protected].
PAPYRUS: A voluntary organisation supporting suicidal teens and young adults. Phone 0800 068 4141
Depression Alliance: A charity for people with depression. No helpline but offers useful resources and links to other information
#RIPRiley #MentalHealthAwareness
A day in the life of an English man.
Picture this, you’re in london, it costs more than you earn to live here, you slowly accumulate debt, you cant afford a holiday so you just use drugs to escape.
The weathers shit & the people that live here hate each other with a passion but you cant afford to leave.
You wake up one morning to you find out your tax is going up after ulez, the cost of living crisis, energy prices & interest rates have eat the last bit of spending money that was left from your monthly wage.
While you’re sat on the toilet reading tweets from the metropolitan police about online trolls a swat team smashes through the bathroom window, past you on the shitter & arrests your 11 year old son for shouting at a police officer.
Your sister rings you (she recently got fired from her job as a doctor for refusing to ask biological men if they are pregnant) & tells you grandma just froze to death because Keir Starmer gave her winter allowance to country on the other side of the planet that’s wealthy then us to help them with climate change.
It all gets a bit much so you go for a pint and try to relax by smoking a cigarette in the beer garden & find out its illegal & get barred.
So you decide to go for a walk to clear your mind & get violently stabbed to death.
The Guardian then plasters your face all over the news for randomly jumping on a perfectly good knife 54 times that was held by a choir boy.
Your sister tweets about it & gets nicked.
Your son comes out of prison & protests about it, but this time he shouts at a police horse, gets nicked but the prisons are too full, so they let out Ian Huntley to put him in back in.
Mad thing is, that don’t even sound far fetched now does it, its now all a perfectly believable turn of events 😂
EDL are about as real as a fkin 🦄
Can’t believe people have turned out tonight to protest against them….. 🤦🏼♀️ too many people believe mainstream media.
@elonmusk I play football. …
No rules as of yet against men playing in our league because they are transitioning to women but still have a (cock and balls! ?)
Also no rules for females trans to men…. (Full beards!) no guessing how much testosterone they have flowing through them.
The IOC have just forced this woman, Angela Carini, to box against a biological male, Imane Khelif.
Calini abandoned the fight after just 45 seconds.
She should never have been made to enter the ring with a man.
Key points ive taken away and learnt from the responses to my tweet yesterday expressing my own personal opinions about being concerned for my 3 daughters future in the UK.
People that WANT to disagree with you will add their own context & create their own talking points to argue with you regardless of what you tweet actually states in writing.
If you question the obscene level of taxes in this country and how much they have increased you don’t want to contribute to society and you also clearly don’t want to help the less fortunate, that’s what it means, you are an awful person to even suggest the government are taking the piss.
London is 100% safe after dark for you and your children to walk around and if you disagree with this in the slightest you are a “Pussyole”.
If you’ve ever crossed the line and got things wrong in the pursuit of entertainment and comedy and came across as misogynistic and sexist (ten years ago when you was a bit of a twat) you have NO RIGHT to be concerned about or discuss woman’s safety even if those women are your own three daughters.
This is a BIG one, if you express concern for ILLEGAL immigration under the pretext of not knowing who is coming into the country with what motives they have and are worried about them mixing with our children you are RACIST and hate ALL immigration, regardless of the fact I'm half Indian and part of my family emigrated here and my grandad taught me that controlled legal emigration rebuilt this country after the second world war and to value it. Which I do. If you are worried about ILLIGAL immigration you hate ALL immigration, be aware of that.
If you are concerned with your children being exposed to gender and over sexulised stuff like on the Olympic opening ceremony and find it strange that its so heavily mixed in with children you are a transphobe and homophobic and automatically hate all trans and gay people.
Be aware of all of that before voicing your own opinion. I got called every name manageable, called irrelevant, stupid, racist, homophobic, had awful things said about my wife, kids, my mum lol, death threats, the lot, from one tweet all within a few hours, it don’t phase me, half of it is for a reaction by severally uneducated trolls and im used to it.
What does worry me is how intense it is for other people that are worried about things and makes me see why people are so scared to have an opinion about their country and how things are done.
People are far more interested in trying to catch you out and make out they have discovered your something evil then listen to legitimate concerns, that’s why this country isn’t moving in the right direction, people are to concerned with calling people bigots and to afraid to talking the risk of being called one. We are fucked.
Im always willing to learn, talk, listen & change my ways of thinking if I'm wrong, or if they have been influenced in the wrong direction, im open to discussion and never set in my ways, I think that's really important, I wanted to say that. I mean it.
Ive tried to steer clear of these subjects because I was worried as I'm now back on tour after ten years and have finally sorted my life out, and I really just want to make people laugh and smile, but if anything, that reaction has shown me how important it is to feel free to discuss everything and not be scared to, so ill say what I want now, when I want, but im always open to discussion.
There is a cancer on social media trying to squash any opinions that don’t match up.
Ow yer, I also learned that if you worry about all those points above as a collective then you are FAR RIGHT, well then, guess that makes me far right, anyone else far right and never even knew?
The Manchester Airport cctv is finally out and it's exactly as we knew it would be.
It clearly shows the Muslims attacking police as they said.
Yet MPs, the media and professionally offended turned the whole narrative for their own agendas.
Sickening.