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'Sam, what's going on?’

Four fairly innocuous words that changed the course of Sam Winnall's career. The ex-Derby County striker was speaking to the club's doctor about symptoms that had seen him feeling low and withdrawing from friends and family, when the question came. The conversation that followed would end with a referral to mental health therapy.

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