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Ruff times are in the past! Huddersfield Town’s Josh Ruffels reveals injury troubles

JOSH Ruffels assumed he had a common-or-garden hernia when he felt a twinge in a game against Watford last season.

Ruff times

By Chris Dunlavy

ON A MISSION: Josh Ruffels, seen here in action before his injury agony, is determined to get back to his best
PICTURE: Alamy

JOSH Ruffels assumed he had a common-or-garden hernia when he felt a twinge in a game against Watford last season.
A quick surgery. A bit of rehab. Six weeks and he’d be back to help keep Huddersfield in the Championship.
Yet it is now 13 months and counting since the 31-year-old last started a league game for the Terriers.
A combination of groin and hernia problems required a more extensive operation and in January doctors ordered the former Oxf...

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