Friday, 4 November 2016

Football’s invisibles: the long and lonely road from calamitous injury | Barry Glendenning

Danny Ings made encouraging noises in the immediate aftermath of his latest injury but he will know only too well the grind of recovery and rehabilitation

With so many headlines devoted to English football’s uniquely tedious interpretation of this year’s opium wars, the latest potholes encountered by José Mourinho on his road to managerial perdition and the apparently interminable hoopla surrounding West Ham’s new digs in east London, it was easy to miss the news that Danny Ings has been sidelined for the rest of the season with another serious injury. Not long back from a long spell sidelined after damaging one knee, the young Liverpool striker suffered the heartbreak of knackering the other last week.

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