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Raise Your Game – Racism in Football
Darren Lewis of the Mirror and FWA's National Committee attended a debate on Racism in Football, organised by Kick it Out, at BBC Centre, London on March 19. Here are his thoughts...
WE KNOW the numbers.
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The mind games that saw Carlton Cole become a lion
Sports psychologist DAN ABRAHAMS explains how he helped the West Ham and England striker...By CHRISTOPHER DAVIES
THE BRITISH seem to have an inbuilt aversion to psychology. If we have a bad tooth, we go a dentist. An ingrowing toenail can be cured by a chirpodist. A few visits to an osteopath and that bad back becomes history. Yet if we have a problem in our mind, whatever it may be, too often the misguided response is: "sort yourself out." To see a psychologist or a counsellor still carries a certain stigma, despite the ignorance of such views.
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