Football and mental health. Can we do more?
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Nat & Gregor are joined by Alyson Rudd to discuss the mental health issues arising from the coronavirus pandemic, and whether football can do more to help tackle this.
They also give their verdict on the latest developments on Project Restart, and look back on the bizarre reign of Louis van Gaal at Manchester United.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the game podcast from The Times and I'm Natalie Sawyer. |
| 0:06.0 | Delighted to say that Grebel Robinson is back with us today as is Allison Rudd. |
| 0:11.0 | So welcome to both of you. |
| 0:13.0 | Allison, how you doing? |
| 0:14.0 | How are you coping at the moment? |
| 0:16.0 | Well, I'm obviously very busy going angling. |
| 0:19.0 | I've caught a couple of carp. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, sure. And it's the center of my life now. |
| 0:24.8 | No pond swimming yet for you? I hear that's something we can do. |
| 0:28.8 | Bizarre, isn't it? They have not thought this through. |
| 0:32.4 | No, a little bit odd. It is. bizarre isn't it? They have not thought this through. |
| 0:33.0 | No, a little bit odd, it is. |
| 0:35.0 | Gregor, you're back. You've had a week off. |
| 0:37.0 | Obviously you've been here there and everywhere. |
| 0:40.0 | Obviously not. |
| 0:41.0 | Trip to Bahamas. |
| 0:42.0 | Back to Scotland. No, basically a back garden. Sorry myself. |
| 0:47.0 | And having a little break. Nice. Nice to have a little rest as such. Allison how about your competitive household how's that fairing |
| 0:57.6 | We're probably getting more not less competitive which is which means in about six weeks time we will implode won't we? |
| 1:05.0 | But it's fine, it's fine. |
| 1:08.0 | To be quite honest, I'm not sure how households who are not competitive are coping because if you are |
| 1:16.2 | competitive it brings an element of adrenaline and excitement to the most mundane tasks so I've as you know invented football scrabble but we're |
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