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Footballers' poor mental health needs to be addressed, according to retired footballer Clarke Carlisle.

Former Burnley and QPR player Carlisle, 35, tried to take his own life in December 2014 while severely depressed.

He told the programme: "I should be dead right now. I believe that I was saved, that I got a reprieve for a purpose - to help others in this situation. I am going to help people".

Carlisle said the stigma of mental illness was a wider "societal issue" but referred to Fifpro statistics which had found a greater prevalence among current and former footballers: "This has to change... We have a duty of care to the purveyors of our national game."