Sunderland legends Gary Bennett and Mick Harford join hundreds of supporters on Fans Museum prostate cancer walk

Former SAFC players have been taking part the Fans Museum Prostate cancer walk to raise awareness of the disease.

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00:30oh yes okay then gary it's the the third walk i believe um in terms of raising awareness about

00:37prostate cancer so just why are you so keen to get this message across to people you meant to

00:42get checked out i think it's important i think one thing which i think men do struggle with

00:47is talking about it and um alongside obviously the two mix here i think we've got a platform

00:54to raise the awareness that it is important to go and get checked and the earlier you catch it the

01:00better chance you've got to obviously to cure it and mick i know you're a sondland lad but live out

01:07the area now so why is it important for you to return each year now to be part of this walk

01:10it's massively important to me because the people of sondland have been so supportive of me through

01:16my uh through my illness uh and i feel i have to give something back uh and i just want to try

01:22with the help of all these guys and the fans museum and uh keep moat uh is trying raise awareness

01:30for prostate cancer and michael i know it's the second year that the fans museum's been involved

01:35and actually organizing it so as founder why are you so keen to be part of this the fans museum's

01:41built on health and education obviously the connection from our former players that we you

01:46know we hold this engagement kids want to see these shorts boots balls but from that we can

01:52direct and educate them obviously prostate concept it's a new topic these two guys are

01:58you know i organize personally on the pitch i want to be part of whatever i can really but

02:03to raise more awareness in sondland but obviously you know for the fans of sondland it's all about

02:08fans and you know nobody's ever going to support anything from health so more heads together

02:15is this now going to be an annual event and also the third you know every year is going to take place

02:20yeah yeah it's our third one it's growing again today make sure it'll be great again and and so

02:25may continue we're actually also going to announce uh another method towards our panting groups so again

02:33more news to follow but obviously today it's all about today it's all about these two guys being brave to

02:38stand up and obviously share their stories which is impeccable to themselves but these are our legends

02:44going to support them and many others and there's the walk also about when people are walking having

02:49a chat opening up maybe revealing your own concerns your own story is that what the walks part about

02:54as well yeah and again that's what we stress about in in regards of talking i think it's important to

02:59talk and share share your experiences um you know and again from my experience i didn't have any symptoms

03:06um but it was a case of obviously listening to my wife and my friend of mine um to go and get checked up

03:13and the earlier you do get checked up and get diagnosed the better chance you've got

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