All Wednesday: Chris Powell, life with the Owls

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In today's special episode of All Wednesday we welcome popular Sheffield Wednesday assistant, Chris Powell, onto the job to discuss his work with Prostate United, his upcoming trip to meet the Royal Family, life with the Owls and - of course - that celebration of his.

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00:00If you check yourself, I check myself once a year, normally around my birthday I've got my check in a couple of weeks.
00:10You can keep it in check. I'm not saying you can stop it.
00:17But while we're raising awareness and money, it's so that research can get better and better.
00:24There have been small breakthroughs, but I think with an illness like this where it's so complex that actually we need a program.
00:39It's not there at the moment, but what we're trying to encourage is for men to go to the doctors, for men to talk about it,
00:46for men to tell other men, for women to tell their partners, their brothers, their dads, their granddads.
00:55Everyone has a role to play. Football's quite a captive audience for it because the majority of fans are men.
01:04So if you put it on the website, if people see that us here, the staff, raising awareness and we're playing our part this month in doing 5, 10 or 15k every day,
01:19let me tell you, it's tough. It's really tough.

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