Rachel Gibbon wants players to avoid crises like those faced by the late Yeovil Town captain Lee Collins.
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Absolutely the right thing to be done.
Footballers start their careers as young as 16, a career that lasts in some cases 25 years, a career that let's face it, you can't get to the top of and then quit to work in normal public jobs. Once you hit that retirement age, which bare in mind isn't the 65+ age for normal jobs, what do you do? You've still got 30+ years of not having the job you love, being able to do what you've known your whole life.
Have people been failed in terms of mental health because of the stigma of them being overpaid and unrelatable to the fans? Just some people that kick a ball on a pitch or a pitch on a football screen, just some live versions of people that kick a ball on a pitch on a games console? People whose identities are reduced to the name on their clothes, like soldiers?
He left behind a lovely family, nobody should have to go through that.