Footballers' mental health messages to be shown before FA Cup ties

Wellbeing suggestions will be screened in stadiums in an awareness initiative

For Jesse Lingard and Alex Scott, yoga helps. Son Heung-Min prefers an early night, while Chris Kamara takes a long walk and Harry Maguire plays golf. These are some of the ways to maintain good mental health suggested by current and former footballers supporting a campaign – backed by the government and the royal family – to encourage sports fans to look after their own mental wellbeing.

In video messages to be broadcast in stadiums across the country before this weekend’s 32 FA Cup third round ties, Frank Lampard, the Chelsea manager, will admit his family “bottled up a lot of emotions, feelings and sometimes anxieties”, and his former teammate Joe Cole will describe how he practised yoga when he felt anxious, “centring yourself and getting back into that zone”.

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