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A new football league has launched exclusively for players with a Body Mass Index of 30 or over, a reading that's classed as 'obese' according to the World Health Organisation.

The five-a-side league runs for 14 weeks and is being partly funded by Solihull Council. Teams gain points not only for goals scored, but also for weight lost. It was set up after organisers felt that existing weight loss programmes were too often aimed at women, not men.

Andy Allsop, who weighs 23 stone, told 5 live the struggle with weight is like "Everest" for himself and others in the league, which is being run by manvfat.com/football.

He says that while he's tried conventional weight-loss programs that focus on talking therapies, he prefers to "go weigh yourself [and then] go and play football".

This clip is originally from 5 live Daily on Tuesday 19 January 2016