Should football’s governing bodies provide a duty of care?

Having a pop at a professional footballer is akin to shooting fish in a barrel, you’d have more chance of finding someone who thinks Bob Diamond was actually deserving of his £20m bonus from Barclays than you would a person who is sympathetic to a footballers plight. Nevertheless, are footballers offered enough care and support after they’ve hung up their boots?
The big white elephant in the room when this topic rears its head is of course, Paul Gascoigne, a tortured soul if ever there was one. Football was his release, his form of escape, but not a week goes by now without picture...