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Sportshour: How football needs to move out of the Dark Ages

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How football needs to move out of the Dark Ages

04/02/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Sportshour, How football needs to move out of the Dark Ages

Why footballer David Wheeler is using his platform to speak on issues affecting the game

Why footballer David Wheeler is using his platform to speak out on important issues affecting the game and society as a whole.

David Wheeler is a footballer with a difference. The Wycombe Wanderers star is now a veteran of the game having played in all but one of the top 5 tiers on English football. He's also unafraid to use his platform to speak about issues that are close to him, from mental health to the harm gambling advertising in the game can do. He was recently became the first ever Sustainability Champion for the PFA, the announcement coinciding with the official "Green Football Weekend".

Do you trust everything you read on the internet?!  Of course not, but what about if the internet is getting some really basic facts completely wrong!?  "Correct the Internet" is a new campaign to challenge and change the bias the internet has developed against women's sport. Rebecca Sowden, a former New Zealand international footballer, is behind the campaign

Presenter: Shabnam Younus-Jewell

Photo: David Wheeler of Wycombe Wanderers celebrates scoring the opening goal for Wycombe Wanderers against Sheffield Wednesday (Credit: by Marc Atkins/Getty Images)

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