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Arsenal’s Martin Odegaard injury update – media anatomy 101
Arsenal’s Martin Odegaard was forced off with “an ankle knock” during Norway’s World Cup Qualifier against Gibraltar, says Sky Sports. It was a “blow” to his ankle, says the Evening Standard‘s man on a sofa. It is “nightmare” injure says the Caught Offside blog. He “rolled his ankle”says the Mirror. He “twisted his ankle” says the Mail.
And get this for a diagnosis. He played on with a broken ankle. Tough lad:
Will update tomorrow with the dire news on how long he will out for before they have him put down etc.
UPDATE: National team coach Stale Solbakken, says he has not suffered a serious injury and hopes to have him back for the next World Cup qualifier against Turkey on Saturday.
Posted: 24th, March 2021 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment
Eder: football’s ultimate rags to riches story
In the Mail, Adam Crafton has written on his interview with Eder (Éderzão António Macedo Lopes), the Portuguese footballer whose goal won Euro 2016 for Portugal.
His father, Filomeno Antonio Lopes, has been in an English prison since 2003, serving a life sentence for the murder of Eder’s stepmother, Domingas Olivais. Eder falls silent, takes a sip of water and says: ‘OK, let’s talk properly about this.’ Over the half hour that follows, Eder answers questions about his father’s past, relives his upbringing in an orphanage and explains why, just two years ago, he came very close to ending his own life.
Eder scores with his feet
There could be a movie in this tale of rags to riches. And there are others. Former Barcelona star Rivaldo lost his teeth to malnutrition.
Diego Armando Maradona… grew up in the shanty town of Villa Fiorito, where he shared one room with seven siblings. Sanitation facilities were somewhat crude and one night, when still a toddler, Maradona fell into the family cesspit after losing his way in the dark. Fortunately his Uncle Cirilo, screaming “Diegito, keep your head above the shit”, was on hand to rescue the youngster. “It wasn’t easy, eh? Nothing was easy,’ recalls Maradona with masterful understatement. One local resident remembers El Diego’s formative years thus. “He had nothing else but football,” says Jose Trotte. “He was not educated, he had no sophistication. He was shirtless and barefooted. He was just this street kid with a gift from God.”
And a hand from God, too.
Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish in tabloid photo shaming
The tabloids fill the hiatus between Premier League seasons with transfer balls and news of footballers on holiday. The Sun brings news of Aston Villa star Jack Grealish’s “hol shame as he’s ‘found lying in gutter’”.
Shame?
FOOTIE starlet Jack Grealish appears to lie slumped in the road at 8am after a night out on a Tenerife holiday. The Aston Villa midfielder, 19, was pictured with a cigarette packet beside his head outside a hotel in Costa Adeje.
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