Aaron Lennon

[mark1975]

Everton midfielder Aaron Lennon has been detained under the Mental Health Act after concerns for his welfare.

The 30-year-old winger had to be helped by police in Salford on Sunday when he was found at the side of a busy road close to the M602.
Lennon, 30, who has been absent from recent Everton squads with an unspecified injury problem, spoke to police officers at the scene for around 20 minutes.

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: ‘Police were called at around 4.35pm on Sunday, April 30, 2017 to reports of a concern for the welfare of a man. 'Officers attended and a 30-year-old man was detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act and was taken to hospital for assessment.’

On Tuesday Everton issued a statement which said: ‘Aaron Lennon is currently receiving care and treatment for a stress-related illness. The club is supporting him through this and his family has appealed for privacy at this time.’

 

[mark1975]

Christ.. Poor guy, hope he sorts himself out.

 

[Esoteric]

Hopefully he'll get all the help he needs. They probably caught him just in time.

 

[gkmacca]

Very sad but thank goodness people have been looking out for him.

 

[Skullflower]

You have to be fucking mad to play for Everton.

 

[Red Astaire]

Poor fella - I presume he tried to top himself right? Depression is a cunt.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

Wishing him a full recovery.

 

[doctor_mac]

You'd think he'd have had the support to prevent his condition getting to the stage where he tried to top himself. Then again, I imagine diagnosis of this kind of problem isn't very sophisticated among the medical support staff at football clubs.

 

[mark1975]

You'd think he'd have had the support to prevent his condition getting to the stage where he tried to top himself. Then again, I imagine diagnosis of this kind of problem isn't very sophisticated among the medical support staff at football clubs.

Yeah, I think when you're in that state, there's a bit of a trend in being able to hide it from people. If you can hide it from your family, you can hide it from your colleagues, and that's half the problem with some of these cases. People don't know how to reach out, so you end up being insular and keeping it from everyone, which is why it eventually boils over and manifest it's self in a major incident, at least in some cases anyway.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

How do people know he tried to commit suicide?

 

[mark1975]

How do people know he tried to commit suicide?

I don't know if he did, it seems he was at least thinking that way due to concerns being raised and him being detained. Maybe it was a cry for help, maybe he'd had a bad day, who knows.

 

[Rosco]

How do people know he tried to commit suicide?

They probably don't but given how he was found and the fact he's been detained under the mental health act - its a reasonable assumption

 

[Oncy]

He probably saw his eyebrows in a mirror.

 

[The Nomad]

They probably don't but given how he was found and the fact he's been detained under the mental health act - its a reasonable assumption

Plus he was found near a motorway. My thoughts immediately went back to Clarke Carlisle.

 

[Mors]

 

[mom]

That's really awful.
Hope he gets well and soon. Mental illness can be debilitating in its more mild forms, but this seems a more serious than that.

 

[Rosco]

Plus he was found near a motorway. My thoughts immediately went back to Clarke Carlisle.

I had to google what happened to him.

Thats a fucking brave way to do it

 

[Rosco]

I've laughed way more than i should have at Skully and Oncys comments.

 

[Jack D Rips]

Meanwhile the Daily Fail put their own slant on it

 

[Dreambeliever]

Interesting how people have such sympathy for this but hope Utd players have career ending injuries

 

[doctor_mac]

It's interesting how Dreamy manages to bring Utd into threads that have fuck all to do with Utd.

 

[doctor_mac]

Meanwhile the Daily Fail put their own slant on it

Dickheads.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

Interesting how people have such sympathy for this but hope Utd players have career ending injuries

Not that I hope any player has career ending injuries, but Shirley (Don't call me Shirley) you can tell the difference between a suicide attempt and a career outside of football? 🙂

 

[Squiggles]

Interesting how people have such sympathy for this but hope Utd players have career ending injuries

It's almost as people can differentiate between not being able to play professional football and living with suicidal ideation. Shocking.

 

[doctor_mac]

To be fair, I wanted Roy Keane to have a career ending injury AND THEN commit suicide, so maybe Dreamy is on to something.

 

[Dreambeliever]

It's interesting how Dreamy manages to bring Utd into threads that have fuck all to do with Utd.

It was more to emphasis the other team we love to hate as Lennon plays for Everton

 

[Dreambeliever]

It's almost as people can differentiate between not being able to play professional football and living with suicidal ideation. Shocking.

And you think having a career ending injury wouldn't lead to suicidal thoughts in some?

 

[doctor_mac]

It was more to emphasis the other team we love to hate as Lennon plays for Everton

I wonder if I put this through google translate if something intelligible will come out?

 

[Dreambeliever]

I wonder if I put this through google translate if something intelligible will come out?

😀😡😳

 

[Oncy]

Interesting how people have such sympathy for this but hope Utd players have career ending injuries

I dont have any sympathy. And I hope Zlatans career is over.
Ok with you?