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England prop Joe Marler has called for mental health support for British and Irish Lions players on this summer s tour of South Africa.
Marler, an extrovert in looks and character, is also a man who has faced mental demons all of his own. He highlights the potential for issues to arise during the Lions Tour of South Africa this summer - players isolated, quarantined, on top of the pressures and physical challenges on the pitch.
The player told the Today Programme’s Rob Bonnet he believed Lions coaches would address the mental difficulties of the tour before the squad departs.
Big brothers joined in building farmyard worlds out of the toybox they’d created, possibly out of fast-evaporating hopes I might join them and father as a proud son of the Norfolk soil. Younger siblings giggled or dozed through my range of silly stories or nearly-naughty rhymes.
Sharing shone through most sessions, even when sharper competitive edges came into play for I Spy, Ludo, Snap, Bagatelle, Blow-football, Hunt-the-Thimble and Who Can Keep a Straight Face Longest When Uncle Willie Slurps His Sunday Tea?
Calling the midwife, district nurse or doctor meant regular trips to the big red phone box outside our village shop and post office. Mini-epidemics of measles, mumps, scarlet fever and whooping cough often prompted instant generosity in passing on to other family members.
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Before we get back to bashing the suits, let us try playing devil s advocate. You can argue that breakdancing is no battier than rhythmic gymnastics – the one in which teenage girls dance around the arena twirling a ribbon behind them. Many Olympic sports look peculiar on close inspection – like familiar words rolled around the tongue for too long. The 100m dash is logical enough. But why does the steeplechase involve a 2ft-deep trough of water? And while the pole-vault presumably derives from the ancient Dutch skill of fierljeppen – in which you cross a dyke or ditch by pivoting on a large stick – it is anyone s guess who came up with the triple jump, and what they were smoking.