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Micah Richards
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 12:30 am
by Adz
Thought this was a genuinely interesting article
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/49845993
Shows how good players can become liabilities over time, and how they need more honest feedback from coaches/managers and not just feed their egos or exclude them.
Re: Micah Richards
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 2:04 am
by Sid Bishop
Adz wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2019 12:30 am
Thought this was a genuinely interesting article
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/49845993
Shows how good players can become liabilities over time, and how they need more honest feedback from coaches/managers and not just feed their egos or exclude them.
Micah Richards. When he first played for England, he looked like he would be a fixture in the national side for a long time, but then knee injuries started to mount up and other injuries followed. As someone with 2 bad knees, one down to a bad football injury at around 22 years old, I can sympathize with him.
When you are young, you feel like you are an immortal, so fit and hard that you can run through a brick wall and come out the other side all intact, but when injury or serious illness strikes, you soon come back down to Earth with a bang !
Re: Micah Richards
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:41 am
by Howling Mad Murdock
I'd say if it doesn't help come off of Twatter/Instagram and Arsebook.That's exactly what I did with Arsebook.
Re: Micah Richards
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 10:57 am
by Proposition Joe
Really good piece that, thanks for sharing.
Not for a second going to compare our athletic prowess but I know exactly what he's describing with the niggles that come elsewhere after a knee injury - I was running better than I ever had when I took a whack on the knee playing football. 2 1/2 years later I still haven't been able to get back anywhere near where I was, have barely managed to stitch together a slow 10k due to a variety of new issues and setbacks that you'd never have thought would be related to the knee and have had to rest for a month at a time several times, beyond frustrating. When it's your whole career it must be awful.
Re: Micah Richards
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:38 pm
by point nine one eight
Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2019 10:57 am
Really good piece that, thanks for sharing.
Not for a second going to compare our athletic prowess but I know exactly what he's describing with the niggles that come elsewhere after a knee injury - I was running better than I ever had when I took a whack on the knee playing football. 2 1/2 years later I still haven't been able to get back anywhere near where I was, have barely managed to stitch together a slow 10k due to a variety of new issues and setbacks that you'd never have thought would be related to the knee and have had to rest for a month at a time several times, beyond frustrating. When it's your whole career it must be awful.
Sorry to hear about your injuries. One of my two sons has had his football days ended via knee injuries, all three ligaments and cartilage in same knee all at once 4 years ago, two opps over 9 month period 13 months off work, no good if your self employed.
Re: Micah Richards
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 2:15 pm
by Proposition Joe
Ouch, that sounds dreadful. Nothing that serious here just annoying and you never realised how interconnected everything is until you have a problem.