The League Paper

CRUEL BLOW FOR CARDIFF’S OVERWORKED ICELANDER

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The LeaguePaper Team
6 May 2018

IT WAS incredibly sad to see Aron Gunnarsson hobble off at Hull last weekend, his World Cup dreams all but crushed.
The 29-year-old says he is “choosing to be optimistic” following knee surgery on Tuesday, but with 41 days left until Iceland’s opener against Argentina it is difficult to envisage their skipper recovering in time.
Sadder still is that Gunnarsson saw it coming. When the midfielder rejected a new deal at Cardiff last summer, he explained to Neil Warnock that his body was wearied by a decade on the Championship treadmill. Limbs and ligaments were starting to cr...

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