Non-League Paper

MOKE WINNING THE MIND GAME

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
28 May 2017

MAGIC MOMENTS: Moke and York City at Wembley last Sunday with his daughter, inset below, and doing the double in 2012, bottom right
PICTURE: Action Images

A DRIANO MOKE clearly had something he needed to talk about. When we took the call from the energetic midfielder three years ago, initial thoughts were of a player fed up, and probably wanting to engineer a move.
Sadly, the story he wanted to tell ran a lot deeper. He didn’t quite realise it at the time, but he was about to be one of the first footballers to do something very brave.
“I’m suffering from depression and ...

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