Souness blames Fibre Sand for injuries
ACCORDING to Newcastle United manager, Graeme Souness, his lengthy injury list is caused by the fibre sand area used at their training ground. Eight of his first team are suffering from hamstring or thigh strains which Souness attributes directly to the fibre sand.
He said: “We’ve lost close on 600 days to hamstrings alone in the last three years at the training ground. In the two years before Newcastle came to this training ground we were on a par with the rest of the Premiership. We were losing about 90 days a year to hamstring injuries. We’re running treble that now.” “We have a very hard fibre sand area that was the only area we could really train on last year and we felt that was our biggest problem, and the (hamstring) statistics bear
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that out.” His first team training has been moved to the Academy Training Ground.
PETE MARRON, Head Groundsman, Lancashire CCC: Ideally, I would like to spend some time taking the dog for a walk - but I don’t have one! And if I offered to take my wife for a walk she really would start worrying about me. During the summer there is very little time off; occasionally I get on to my local Sale Golf Club for a round and the greenkeeper, Chris, knows when I’m about because of the number of divots on the course! I like a game of golf but, unfortunately, I’m not that good. Out of the season my favourite hobby is getting bladdered. Me and my wife have a great social life so most of the weekend we are drinking, and Monday and Tuesday are spent recovering. Mid-week I occasionally go into town with my pal, Derek, for a drink and we usually end up in one of the more interesting establishments - the Fantasy Bar or Long Legs. One thing I definitely do not do on my day off is talk about cricket or wickets; I get enough of that throughout the year. Gardening is something else I definitely avoid. The front lawn has a good sprinkling of old English flowers, which can be a bit embarrassing as most of the
neighbours know who I am.
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