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Adam Virgo: Kyle Bartley’s knee woe tells sorry story

Kyle Bartley needing a knee replacement at the age of 34 tells you everything that’s wrong with the medical side of football. It’s criminal that he’s got to this position.

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Kyle Bartley needing a knee replacement at the age of 34 tells you everything that’s wrong with the medical side of football. It’s criminal that he’s got to this position.

People will call him a warrior. A leader. They’ll applaud him for playing through the pain.
But behind all that will be a long history of painkillers and injections - and an absence of people at club level saying ‘No - you shouldn’t be playing today’.
I know, because I’ve been there myself. I retired at 30 through a knee injury. Sooner or later, I’ll need a knee replacement as well.
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I have good days, I have bad da...

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