I've broken a lot of things. I've torn a lot of muscles. I've torn a lot of ligaments.
I broke my ring finger in a trampoline accident.
I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
Being in a boot is not fun. Being on crutches is not fun.
I played with high ankle sprains.
At my club, Portsmouth, my foot pains were diagnosed as a strain of the syndesmotic ligament.
Talk about a foot injury, you can't release how you want to, you can't come out of your breaks how you want to.
It is difficult to say how muscle injuries occur.
Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've got to do all those things. It makes it tough.
Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.
Oh, there's a lot of breaks in our sport. Strained muscles, breaks, tears. I've seen teeth fly out before mouth guards were compulsory. Feet fractures are quite common, cheeks, faces, jaws, legs.
I fractured my left foot.
I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.
I've had a few injuries and if you can't carry on, that's always a bad sign. Sometimes it's bruising or sometimes it's a nerve that stops you.
I've separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I've messed up my knee a million times. I've broken my foot in several places. I've broken my toe a bunch, broken my nose a couple of times, and had a bunch of other annoying little injuries, like turf toe and arthritis and tendonitis. It's part of the game.
