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Arab Elvis (U7425)

I had the same problem with my ankles. Torn my lateral in my ankle and then my other ankle kept giving way whenever I tried playing again.

Stick to 5 a side now, was sick of gravity bruising and limping into work every Monday morning, still gives me jip now, 5 years on.

anyone have a breakdown of his major injuries?

as in which leg was broken, which knee etc?

BB and Elvis - hope this doesnt come across wrrong fellas.

I think medical treatment for these guys is a bit different than what we got, LOL.

in my case they misdiagnosed, i was on anti inflammatories whereas i need an op.

bit different to horse placenta etc

Very true, the they are still human and I had ex England and Wolves physio work on my ankle.

It can't be an enjoyable experience being an injured footballer, physio is hard work and very painful.

bb - and boring as ****. this was what let me down in the long run

sitting on the edge of a hospital bed in me undies twirling my feet watched by this humungous nurse. eeewww

last physio was a new zealander and was fit though

seriously though, my experience and the suffering later was what made me force my younger brother to do it all and he has benefitted

comment by RedReason (U5677)

sitting on the edge of a hospital bed in me undies twirling my feet watched by this humungous nurse
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Pffffft. I have to pay good money for that.

RedReason,

But does it matter what sort of injuries Ando has had? I.e. "run of the mill" or otherwise?

The fact is that the lad has picked up major injuries in each of the last 4 years. That obviously hasn't helped his development but the fact is that, even when "fit" he only seems capable of playing 60 min and his form is inconsistent.

Injuries have not helped hinm in this regard but I find it frustrating that we have a 24 year old (soon to be 25) and we are still talking about "potential" and "glimpses" of form.

According to many fans, Ando was signed as a replacement for Scholes. Does anyone really believe he is anywhere close to becoming that? Surely not. That may or may not be his fault but, from a fan's perspective, does it really matter whose fault it is?

For example, I don't care whether Owen or Hargreaves were to blame for their injury problems (probably not) but that doesn't change the fact that they weren't available/ready when we needed them and you can only tolerate that for so long.

For how many more years can we continue to hope that Ando maintain consistency of fitness and form before we take the decision to bring someon else in?

We never replaced Hargreaves, we still haven't replaced Scholes and there is every chance that we might be looking for a replacement for Ando sooner or later if his problems aren't sorted out. And that goes double for Fletcher!

I think Ando gets a lot of injuries due to his playing style. Combatative, presses quick, drives with the ball, very mobile and is quite small.

These types of players often suffer niggling muscular and ligament injuries.

I'm all for supporting our own players and I think Ando could still become a very good player if he manages to get over his fitness issues, but no way is he better (or even as good) as Schweinsteiger. BS is in a different league, he is excellent at controlling the tempo of a game whilst not letting the opposition play. Exactly the sort of player United need, and better than any of the midfielders we have on the books currently.

Don't base your judgement on a couple of poor games he's had, he is one of the top center-mids in the world and would walk into our lineup.

As for Lahm, I've rated him highly but he had a very poor game against Portugal. Nani got the better of him a number of times, and his passing was off too (lost possession on a number of occasions). If Portugal had a decent striker they might have scored as well.

I'm going to put the comparison in this article down to a bad prawn you might have eaten recently and move on without burning you.

However, be warned only one prawn excuse can ever be used.