This month is #MensHealthMonth.
The stigma around Mens Mental Health needs to end.
• Three times as many men as women die by suicide.
• Men aged 40-49 have the highest suicide rates in the UK3.
• Men report lower levels of life satisfaction than women.
• Men are less likely to access psychological therapies than women: only 36% of referrals to NHS talking therapies are for men.
• Nearly three-quarters of adults who go missing are men.
• 87% of rough sleepers are men.
• Men are nearly three times as likely as women to become dependent on alcohol, and three times as likely to report frequent drug use.
• Men are more likely to be compulsorily detained (or ‘sectioned’) for treatment than women.
🚨 Sir Alex’s infamous rant about his Aberdeen team moments after they had won the Scottish Cup against Rangers, is the stuff of legends…
“A disgrace of a performance… Winning cups doesn’t matter, our standards have been set long ago. I’m not going to accept that from any Aberdeen team”
He later said he regretted making those remarks and apologised to the players. But still, we all saw what that level of drive, desire and standards can achieve in a man’s life.
#manchesterunited #AlexFerguson #Aberdeen
Carrying a darker edge than their earlier hits, Sash! teamed up with Tina Cousins for “Mysterious Times”. Taken from Life Goes On (August 1998) and released in July 1998, it became one of their biggest UK hits, reaching number two and continuing their late 90s chart run.
90 seconds left in the Nou Camp. I was there that night in the press box and have never seen such carnage among newspapermen under a deadline, or such collective dismay as struck the German press corps. As a Sunday newspaper guy, it was all a delight.