Footballers: Beware of Beds and Barbecue

Having spent the past 24 hours in utter Bubonic Plague-induced misery (I am fine now, thanks for asking and for your all-night candlelight vigils, flowers and strip-o-grams), I should be a bit sympathetic towards footballers who are suffering themselves. I am just not that good of a person. Instead, their pain is my pleasure.

We start with Reading’s Leroy Lita who may not be available for his team’s opening match against Manchester United on Sunday. Lita is suffering from a muscle injury. An injury he sustained while in bed.

Boss Steve Coppell told the Evening Post: ‘Leroy is in a great deal of pain. He woke up and stretched while in bed and he has done something to his leg. It is not an injury that should be ridiculed or made light of.

So stretching is what the kids call it these days. Good to know. By the way, a Reading blog is in the works. We can’t let these types of injuries go without round-the-clock coverage.

Joining Lita in the unhappy department today are four Norwich players who were among 30 people whose stomachs burst following a barbecue at the club’s training grounds. The punchline in all this is the club’s director is a celebrity chef named Delia Smith. The club denies her cooking had anything to do with the mass diarrhea nor does it take responsibility for the way you feel after you watch Norwich play.

Our friends at SquadGod direct us to some other bizarre football injuries that make the Bubonic Plague seem like a delightfully refreshing new soft drink.

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