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’TWICE I’D TRIED TO KILL MYSELF, NOW I KNOW I AM NOT ALONE’

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
4 March 2018

Liam’s winning the fight over demons
By MATT BADCOCK

LIFE WAS going great for Liam Hughes. He’d scored in the play-off final at Wembley as Cambridge United, the club he’d been at since he was 15, won promotion from the Conference.
He was playing in the Football League and part of a team that drew with Manchester United in the FA Cup live on BBC. He had two daughters, since joined by a third, and a partner he’d been with for nearly ten years.
But things started to drift. An injury sidelined him and the then 22-year-old started feeling sorry for himself. He’d ...

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