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Why Football Remains England's Most Powerful Alternative Intervention

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup draws global attention to football, psychotherapist and Soccology founder Kevin George makes the clinical case for football as a primary psychosocial intervention for boys in England. Drawing on fifteen years of practice across SEND education, family therapy, and community programmes, George argues that football provides identity repair, a containing environment, and extended boundaries for boys who have been failed by every statutory system, and that this model deserves to be commissioned at scale as a matter of public health policy.