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Every time I came back, I was knocked down

IWAS sitting alone in the changing room at Newcastle in tears when I rang my dad and told him I did not know whether I could carry on. I had suffered another hamstring injury. By that stage, I had torn a hamstring or calf five or six times in the space of a season. I would work my way back, train once or twice, perhaps play a game, and then something would go again.
The emotional swings were brutal. With a long-term injury, you can at least see the stages in front of you. You tick off the milestones and gradually move closer to playing. This was different. Every time I thought I was back, ...

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