A life between the sticks - David Preece with Tony Coton
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello listeners, producer Ben here and it's Mental Health Awareness Week this week, so we've teamed up with Calm, who we've been working with all season, to bring you this special bonus episode. |
| 0:12.6 | It's our pal David Priest talking to his old friend and teammate Tony Coton, the Goldie for Watford, Mancity and Sunderland, and a coach at Manu in Aston Villa. |
| 0:20.5 | They're going to talk about |
| 0:21.3 | their respective careers, but also the particular stresses of a life between the sticks, and how Tony |
| 0:26.3 | sought help after first his playing and then his coaching career was cut short. Calm is the campaign |
| 0:31.2 | against living miserably, a charity dedicated to preventing male suicide, which is the leading |
| 0:35.5 | cause of death for men under 45 in the UK. |
| 0:38.5 | Every day from 5pm till midnight, can't provide a free, confidential and anonymous helpline |
| 0:42.6 | and a web chat for any man who needs support. Find out more at the Calmzone.net. |
| 0:53.3 | Tony Coton. Thanks for joining us today. Welcome, mate. Good to see you. It's been a long time. It has. I should explain that we've known each other a long time. We were together at Sunland. Yeah, I was responsible for you not kicking on at Sunland. Yeah. No, I don't. Responsible for me leaving? No. No, no, I think the broken leg put paid to that. |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah, well, both our injuries at Sunland. |
| 1:18.2 | You even more... |
| 1:19.2 | I mean, I had a lot of injuries at Sunland, |
| 1:20.4 | but I mean, yours was a pretty serious one, were it? |
| 1:23.4 | Well, yeah, I mean, it ended my career, |
| 1:24.8 | but I was player coach and responsible for the goalkeepers, which you were one of them. |
| 1:31.1 | But unfortunately, 11 games into the season, five fractures in a just innocuous challenge at Southampton, full Sunderland. |
| 1:40.3 | Ended in five fractures and the end of my career and really the end of my goalkeeping coaching career at Sondland. |
| 1:48.7 | We're discussing your book here, there to be shot at, not a biography. |
| 1:53.4 | And quite early on in the book, you mentioned the mental pressures that are on goalkeepers. |
| 1:57.8 | We speak about injuries there now. |
| 2:00.4 | There's a lot of mental battles are going with footballers when you get injured. |
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