Oxford’s Will Vaulks: ‘My grandads took their own lives – I want to save other families from what we went through’

The Oxford United and Wales midfielder is an award-winning campaigner for suicide prevention. He talks to Lawrence Ostlere about his teenage anger, the manosphere and how his grandfathers’ deaths inspired him to save lives


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