Big calf muscles, tanned, cheeky smile... Dunno, what's your type?Heard this every week ! Hope your right though , but how fit is he going to be ?
What have his socks and pads got to do with this injury?Any chance of him playing with normal socks and shin pads from now on? Or does he miss a third of every other season from now on...
Brilliant news if trueLooks like the boy is back against Everton
Shin splints are a stress injury. Absolutely NOTHING to do with socks or shin pads.Any chance of him playing with normal socks and shin pads from now on? Or does he miss a third of every other season from now on...
Any chance of him playing with normal socks and shin pads from now on? Or does he miss a third of every other season from now on...
The players nowadays all wear tiny shin pads, enough to adhere to the rules and that’s it. If you don’t believe me the watch a re run of the Saints v Palace second half from last night during which they highlighted and focused in on the the lack of coverage a shin pad was giving one of the players.
Now I think SJ‘s are perhaps even smaller than the average shin pad but point remains that every premier league player wears a pad that offers barely any protection so it’s simply not true that SJ gets injured becuase of his shin pads, or lack of them as the case is.
I think the shinpad is one of the most overrated items of “protection”. In all the years I played (starting in the 1970s when a fair tackle was about 300% more physical than it is today) I got one injury on my shin and that was from a slide tackle that I made myself on a snow covered pitch when a jagged piece of ice went through my sock... after they brought in the rule requiring them I literally can never recall thinking I’m glad I had my shin pads there....As you're barely allowed to put a hard tackle in anymore, there probably isn the same need for shinpads as there was back 20+ years ago