Perhaps the final words should go to former Manchester City and England under-21 midfielder Paul Lake, who saw his promising playing career effectively ended at the age of 21 by a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament, which would see him only play four further games.

While he often bemoans their behaviour, Royle feels that as long as everyone is ready to train on Thursday, there are no major issues.

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Liversedge described Mark Hughes’ equaliser the turning point in Oldham Athletic successful period. They failed to win any of the last seven games and were relegated from the Premier League on the last day of the season after a draw at Norwich City. When Terry Venables was appointed England manager he agreed that long serving physios Fred Street and Norman Medhurst had done a very good job and were both utterly dedicated to England, but in this department, it was time for a change. “We needed a new dash of enthusiasm and fresh ideas.” the one hand the team doctors have to abide by the Hippocratic Oath and intervene when a player is in medical need, but it also important to take account of the fact they work as part of a group under the coach,” it said.

Last May – during the Football Medical Association Conference dinner – we were informed that 12 people in the game had already lost their jobs. I can recall at breakfast the following morning asking Alan Smith, former England and Sheffield Wednesday sponge man, who those people were. He informed me his own son was one of three medical staff shown the door by the manager at Hillsborough. In football you work as part of a team, as Dave Butler described in 1996: “I love the day-to-day involvement with the players, the atmosphere, the humour and camaraderie. But if things change for whatever reason, you can’t blend in for whatever reason, you’re finished.” Busy time of year for Liversedge" [ permanent dead link], Lancashire Evening Telegraph, 21 December 2002 was full, full-on. It’s like it is now in the Premier League, it’s a full-on job. Except the difference is, now, there’s three or four of them doing it, I was the only one doing it.”

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Neil maintains tried and trusted methods but knew he had taken Cardiff as far as he could when resigning last season having been relegated. He has his own, unique take on sports science and the game in general. I left in 2008, the full-time staff consisted of two physiotherapists, one doctor, two masseurs, one fitness coach, one osteopath, one travel and equipment manager and two kit men. Cech played with a rugby-style head guard ever since and that protected the areas of his skull weakened by the collision. That would see the newly-qualified physiotherapist land his first full-time physio position with the Toon during the summer of ’82. Everything is different now with diet and fitness regimes, Arsene Wenger changed it but your eyes still tell you whether a player is ready for it for or not. We must also remember it is still a game, not a science.

think I’ve had eight or nine promotions, but you don’t get those promotions if you’re not a team. You’re a team on the pitch and you’re a team off the pitch. After taking advice from a number of physios, he kept the menu heavy with carbs and proteins, cereal, wholemeal toast and fresh fruit. Robson for instance is one who wants to carry on and play no matter what the injury is – Peter Storey used to be the same when he was playing for either Arsenal or England. This is very much against the tradition, certainly in English football, of the ‘manager-physio-players’ model where good working relationships were traditionally built.In the book, it was revealed that Gascoigne was smoking heavily at this point and liked “a few brandies” before a game). Mourinho later defended his position, saying: “Every week I face a decision about the bench. I have to choose. With the medical department, only two can go on the bench and we have more than a dozen.”