http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3833314/Martin-Ling-interview-pal-stopped-leaping-rail-track-stopped-jumping-road.html
Martin Ling knew over lunch. He knew, as he glared at a plate of untouched food, that it was coming back and that's when the fear started.
'What if it's like last time?' he thought. 'Oh s***, why now? Oh f***, what if it's like last time?'
He was sitting with the coach he had brought to Swindon Town, Ross Embleton, and the club's director of football, Seamus Brady. It was November 24, 2015, and the three of them had decided to get something to eat before the League One match against Walsall that night.
But Ling, suddenly, had no appetite. And after what he had been through, he knew this was one of the signs. Panic rippled through him.
He'd only been in the job three weeks, given an opportunity he didn't think would come again, and now this. But it might be nothing, he told himself. 'It might not be that b****** coming back.' Best to focus on Walsall, he reasoned, and that night Swindon won 2-1 for their second victory in three games.
They had been in desperate trouble when Ling arrived on November 3 and now were climbing. But Ling felt nothing but indifference.
'Another sign,' he thought. 'Why aren't you happy? S***. This isn't good.' He walked the corridors of the County Ground that night and several others in the next two weeks, spotting pictures of himself as a player he had never noticed before.
He was part of the Swindon team who reached the Premier League and he played when they got there. This was his club, where the door to one of the bars is covered in his image — the laughing winger in Swindon's most successful side.
It was the club that had given him his return to management after the horrific pain and stigma of his mental breakdown at Torquay in 2013. That episode, with those five weeks in the Priory and the 'barbaric' electroshock treatments, might have ended his time in management. But Swindon chairman Lee Power looked past that for one of their own.
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