even when you are by yourself, you can t? i find it so hard, man. i can t appear to be weak. i think i was at a stage like that at some point. i felt like that when i was younger. if i everfelt down i held it in and held it in and it led to the situation of self harming and stuff like that. it s the only way i could get a release from stuff, cutting myself. do you know what i mean? i used to punch walls and doors and wrecked my mum s house. my name s david cox, i m 30 years old and currently play football for cowdenbeath football club in scotland. i ve suffered from her mental health issues from a very young age, probably about 14 or 15 years old. and on a number of occasions i ve tried to take my life. the pressures of playing football and having people knowing what s going on throughout my life and the issues i ve faced, it s been hard. was there, i suppose, anybody
CROSSGATES man Sidney Arnold had a very happy 90th birthday on Christmas Eve. A piper and more than 50 socially-distanced villagers gathered outside his home in Church Place to wish him all the best. And he had an extra birthday present when he learned he was one of Cowdenbeath Football Club’s Festive Friends, through sponsorship from the Scottish Professional Football League Trust, and the Aldi store in the town, plus a lot of hard work from members of Cowdenbeath Rotary Club and directors of the Blue Brazil. Sidney was born in Dunfermline but has stayed in Crossgates for 65 years. He was a lorry driver and worked for BRS and Hutchisons for many years, as well as in the opencast mining industry, transporting coal.