Sportsmen and women are our heroes.
Those fellow people that achieve incredible feats.
Win championships and gold medals.
Bring us joy and euphoria that ‘we’ are the best in the country or the world.
We know them.
We are close to them.
We see them everyday on the television, in the newspapers and magazines, online and in super digital 3D.
Freddie Flintoff takes the lid off this perfect sporting world and begins to show us that these giants of sport have frailties too.
We may not want to know that, but in a powerful tv programme the former England Cricket captain, highlights why we should know it.
If you are viewing this in the UK then you can view the programme in the iPlayer link in the article (I’m not sure about outside the UK – sorry!)
Honest and candid, as you expect Freddie to be, this programme puts the ‘taboo’ of depression ‘out there’.
With the loss of Rugby League’s Terry Newton and Football’s Gary Speed recently, this subject is more pressing than we think.
It would be nice to see a follow-up to this and see more about how people can receive help for this potentially fatal illness.
