‘Life Does Get Better’ – Lee Jobber’s Emotional Story

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‘Life Does Get Better’ – Lee Jobber’s Emotional Story

Leicester City hosted a men’s mental health evening last month, with Foxes fan Lee Jobber sharing his own story.

2025-12-23T12:00+00:00

by Sam Jones

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23 Dec, 2025

‘Life Does Get Better’ – Lee Jobber’s Emotional Story

Leicester City hosted a men’s mental health evening last month, with Foxes fan Lee Jobber sharing his own story.

Sam Jones

2025-12-23T12:00+00:00

‘Life Does Get Better’ – Lee Jobber’s Emotional Story

Leicester City hosted a men’s mental health evening last month, with Foxes fan Lee Jobber sharing his own story.

Sam Jones

2025-12-23T12:00+00:00

‘Life Does Get Better’ – Lee Jobber’s Emotional Story

Leicester City hosted a men’s mental health evening last month, with Foxes fan Lee Jobber sharing his own story.

Sam Jones

2025-12-23T12:00+00:00

‘Life Does Get Better’ – Lee Jobber’s Emotional Story

Leicester City hosted a men’s mental health evening last month, with Foxes fan Lee Jobber sharing his own story.

Sam Jones

2025-12-23T12:00+00:00

Working in partnership with Leicester City in the Community, the Club are striving to make wellbeing a priority at LCFC.

Guests and staff gathered in the press conference room at King Power Stadium to hear several powerful talks, including from Lee and Foxes favourite Matt Elliott, alongside presentations from various organisations supporting men through mental health challenges.

The group also divided into breakout sessions in the home dressing room, and pitchside, a unique look behind the scenes while engaging with our supporters across the subject of wellbeing.

Well known around these parts as the drummer on Filbert Way for two decades, Lee faced a mental health battle which almost took his life in 2023.

Now out the other side after receiving the support he needed through joining recovery meetings, Lee has since volunteered for mental health charities.

Attending Andy's Man Club, a charity providing a safe space for men to talk about their emotions, he was asked to run sessions himself within a few weeks.

Reflecting on his journey, Lee said: “I think it’s a massive privilege for me to be able to sit here in the stadium of the Club that I absolutely adore. This Club has been everything to me, but at times it was too much. It got to the point where I was here around 32,000 people and I was lonely.

“But I couldn’t tell anybody that – I’m Jobber from the City. I’m alright, I’m doing okay. But that wasn’t the truth. Internally, I had nothing. I was absolutely crippled from the inside, but I was still trying to portray myself as okay.

“I was trying to better my life, but I was sat in a hospital bed crying my eyes out. I didn’t feel like I belonged anywhere. I’d been planning this end of life for many months. I took myself off and within 10 minutes, there was a knock at the door and the police said: ‘Margaret, your son took himself off a bridge’.

“It can get better, with the right support. Life does get better. And I’m living proof of that, because life is good. I’m crying out of emotion for my Mum. She stuck with me in times where she probably shouldn’t have done. For me, therapy has been massive and continues to work.”

Former Foxes skipper Matt Elliott, meanwhile, spoke passionately about how players can face issues post-retirement and the impact of Lee’s speech.

He commented: “Everyone has their difficulties, their trials and tribulations in life, at whatever level. I’ve had a fair few. You don’t get a lot of sympathy as a professional footballer because you earn decent money, you play out a young boy or girl’s dream.

“Everything seems rosy, but underneath it, whatever you’re doing, you’ve still got to deal with things internally.

“Coming out of football, I was certainly a little bit lost. I was captain of Leicester City at 36 and at 38, I was bankrupt, effectively jobless and on the verge of divorce. My father had died not long before. All of a sudden, the world that you’re accustomed to disappears.

“Listening to Lee, without doubt, will give inspiration, but also makes you aware of how stark reality can be. Whatever your predicament, however low you get, there are many people out there willing to help and assist.”

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