Numbed by Robert Enke’s suicide

Too sad:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article6913198.ece

“It was a tough time. That is clear because he thought there was no hope of a recovery on the horizon for him.” said his widow.

Enke, who had played for clubs in Germany, Spain, Portugal and Turkey before settling at Hanover in 2004, winning eight full caps, had been treated by Valentin Markser, a therapist, for the past six years. “We were very close, yet even I didn’t notice how acute was the threat,” Markser said. “He knew how to hide the scope of his illness, had developed defence mechanisms….”

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