PRINCE WILLIAM WANTS FA CUP FINAL RENAMED 'HEADS UP FA CUP'
Prince William has outlined his hopes to raise awareness of men's mental health by having the FA Cup renamed the Heads Up FA Cup. The Royal has spearheaded a season-long effort to encourage more people to discuss their mental health under the banner of 'Heads Up' alongside Heads Together.
In a discussion with Aston Villa midfielder John Mcginn, William explained how he wanted to tackle the subject within the footballing community.
Prince William, a Villa fan, said: 'I mean hopefully a few people will have seen a bit about Heads Up by now. But effectively it's been a season long campaign and the idea being that we can get people to talk about mental health, kick off a conversation. I think we built a little bit of a platform with Heads Together a few years ago where we just tried to chip away at the taboo and stigma of mental health. 'And of the last bastions of maleness that seemed quite difficult was the footballing community. And we felt there was a lot of opportunity here with football, 16 odd million people around the country follow football.
'So we felt we could use the power of the sport and really elevate mental health to another level and allow people to have that conversation and let people know it's okay to talk and it's okay to not be okay and I think those start of conversations have started and I'm hoping culminating in the FA Cup Final being renamed the Heads
Up FA Cup, I think that's a nice thing to hang the campaign on for the year.'