Johnp does himself a sporting injury while watching the

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he says he has got a swollen knee but do we believe him or is it another one of his excuses

As he is always making them up

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?? What’s this all about then? :unsure:

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well it wasnt through getting his knee down thats for sure.

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Hypercondriac springs to mind…:smiley:

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He’s just a worn out knackered old fart !! :slight_smile:

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What it was, is when i was watching the Swiss game on Saturday night i got up from the chair and as i did that i put all my weight on me right leg and twisted it. It the swelled up like a ballon.
I did still make it to the herts meet with my sports injury last night.

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To be fair, thats a LOT of weight :):stuck_out_tongue:

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When he told me I miss heard, I thought he said playing football. When he corrected me I was gobsmacked. Shocked, never heard of anyone injuring themselves watching football before.

John, you are unique!

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ahh JP - you ok?

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Getting better day by day.
Kev you should know better, that the shape i am i don`t do sports.

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I once burst the sinovial sac in both knees greeting the pope, his Holiness didnt even notice! Cant say I`ve bothered with confession since. Does anyone feel this was an over-reaction, should my faith have been stronger or should my soft tissues have better supported the weight of my sins?

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Not as rare as you might think… taken from http://www.arseweb.com/other/bmj.html

David Seaman once broke a bone reaching for his TV remote Carlo Cudicini is also said to have damaged a knee reaching for a remote control. Could be that one or both is urban legend? Or that there’s something about goalkeepers that makes them prone to this injury?They also have a report from the British Medical Journal which reads:

Alan Shearer’s opening goal for England against Germany in the Euro 96 semifinal was celebrated throughout the country by football supporters. The radiographs show a bicondylar fracture of the tibial plateau and a fracture of the calcaneum, which occurred in two “armchair” supporters (aged 36 and 54) who celebrated with the customary jumping up and down in front of their television set. Perhaps this sort of injury might be prevented by a pre-match warm-up and correct footwear. - P HALLUM, senior house officer, AET WHITE, senior registrar, department of orthopaedic surgery, Barnet General Hospital Gotta love that idea - a pre-match warm-up for armchair supporters!!! or could you imagine the scene in a pub where as part of a new crackdown by health & safety bureaucrats, compulsory warm-ups would take place before the games could be shown…:w00t: Anyhow, GWS JP (again… :wink: )