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4 Scottish footballers on suicide watch as mental health impact of shutdown laid bare

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Four Scots footballers have been saved from suicide by a mental health charity in the past week as the coronavirus crisis wreaks havoc.Dozens of stressed-out footballers are flooding Stirling-based Back Onside with cries for help and they are currently working with 83 players from clubs across the SPFL.Forty - footballers and members of the public - are in a three-month counselling course but the numbers are described as the tip of the iceberg as players try to come to terms with financial anxiety and a lack of structure to their lives with games and training cancelled.Former Hibs and Scotland star Garry O’Connor, is an ambassador for the charity run by his partner Libby Emmerson and before lockdown was touring the country speaking to clubs

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