As much as this blog should be about WarbyGK Goalkeeper Gloves, I'm too vain to not write a little about me!! As you may be aware I had an operation back in June for repairs to my torn ACL, PCL and cartilidges in my knee sustained in a car accident nearly 4 years ago now. I visited the Physio as usual last week who told me that I'll "never play again", and as much as I was expecting it I still didn't want to hear it! Sadly the operation wasn't quite as successful as indicated pre-op and I'm still in a lot of ridiculous pain with simple every day activities however...... I hate losing. Full Stop. And so on Saturday I went down to the local park on my own and started pinging some footballs into the net. I regretted this on Sunday as my knee blew up like a balloon and I could only hobble everywhere again, but that feeling of striking a ball for the first time in 5 months was FANTASTIC! I even popped one in the top corner from 20 yards (tried to repeat and had to fetch the ball out of the car park!) however I am now thinking the Physio was right as since the operation I can't jog for longer than 5 minutes before my knee say "no that's enough", I can't get in my car without falling in and more importantly I can't even kneel down to fasten my kids shoes up! Persta et Obdura (latin for Never Give Up, don't you know!!), and I won't but why does it have to hurt so much?!
Speaking of Never Giving Up (see, I don't just throw this blog together!), WarbyGK endorsee Adam Collin finally made his Football League debut on Tuesday night away at MK Dons. Adam was released by Newcastle United as a youngster and subsequentially spent time playing semi pro whilst working as a landscape gardner before Carlisle United offered him a deal this summer. His story epitomises the attitude to Never Give Up and that is one of the reasons why we were attracted to offering him a deal in the first place, now all I've got to do is send him some more goalie gloves!
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