Luton away 21/11/20

[AucklandRover]

Champs - I think we all know the dangers of such injuries, in respect to the long-term.
To supply a more optimistic note, though, at a much lower level of sport, I have a personal story which might help.
As a result of a very dangerous tackle on a rugby pitch, I tore two ligaments at the same time in my left knee. (Neither was completely severed, luckily). I was 32 at the time. By a fortunate coincidence, my surgeon was also the doctor for Ipswich Town FC. After three months in a full plaster, I was given various opinions, including several that I would/should never play again. Being pig-headed, I chose to listen only to that surgeon because he said I was no more at risk of doing it again than anyone else.
I asked him what it would take to return to fitness, and he replied, "Bloody hard work and patience."
He also said I would know I was ready when I could touch my bum with my heel. (It was all much less scientific in those days!).
The last inch took a long time!
Anyway, I was back on the pitch in eight months, and I went on playing rugby until I was 47. For much of that period, I played rugby on Saturday and football on Sunday (not to mention cricket twice a weekend, all through the summer!).
What I'm really saying is that the impact is different for different people.
I have never had a day's trouble with that knee in all the years since. And, of, course, Dack will have had much better treatment than me.