Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:55 pm Post subject: Re: Spurs captain retires. Only 6 years after his knees did.
i remember euro 2004. he was the answer to our defensive problems for the next 10 years. then somebody forgot to give him the knee upgrade. great player that court of been one of the greats but for injuries. _________________ The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:02 pm Post subject: Re: Spurs captain retires. Only 6 years after his knees did.
Ledley King, he must be well pleased with 1 carling cup in 17 years
Tony Adams
First Division/Premier League: 1988–89, 1990–91, 1997–98, 2001–02
FA Cup: 1992–93, 1997–98, 2001–02
Football League Cup: 1986–87, 1992–93
FA Community Shield: 1991 (shared), 1998, 1999
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1993–94 _________________ -------------------------------------------------------
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:04 pm Post subject: Re: Spurs captain retires. Only 6 years after his knees did.
omen666 wrote:
Ledley King, he must be well pleased with 1 carling cup in 17 years
Tony Adams
First Division/Premier League: 1988–89, 1990–91, 1997–98, 2001–02
FA Cup: 1992–93, 1997–98, 2001–02
Football League Cup: 1986–87, 1992–93
FA Community Shield: 1991 (shared), 1998, 1999
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1993–94
i know you are trying to wind up nem and i applaud the banter. however i thin there has to be a little homage paid to being loyal. look at alan shearer. he won f-all in his premiership career with newcastle. fair play to them _________________ The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:25 pm Post subject: Re: Spurs captain retires. Only 6 years after his knees did.
omen666 wrote:
Ledley King, he must be well pleased with 1 carling cup in 17 years
Tony Adams
First Division/Premier League: 1988–89, 1990–91, 1997–98, 2001–02
FA Cup: 1992–93, 1997–98, 2001–02
Football League Cup: 1986–87, 1992–93
FA Community Shield: 1991 (shared), 1998, 1999
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1993–94
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:06 pm Post subject: Re: Spurs captain retires. Only 6 years after his knees did.
darrensprengers wrote:
omen666 wrote:
Ledley King, he must be well pleased with 1 carling cup in 17 years
Tony Adams
First Division/Premier League: 1988–89, 1990–91, 1997–98, 2001–02
FA Cup: 1992–93, 1997–98, 2001–02
Football League Cup: 1986–87, 1992–93
FA Community Shield: 1991 (shared), 1998, 1999
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1993–94
i know you are trying to wind up nem and i applaud the banter. however i thin there has to be a little homage paid to being loyal. look at alan shearer. he won f-all in his premiership career with newcastle. fair play to them
Have to agree with you there _________________ -------------------------------------------------------
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:21 pm Post subject: Re: Spurs captain retires. Only 6 years after his knees did.
Checkov wrote:
Ledley King wouldn't of passed the medical at another club, leaving wasn't really an option.
Bit of sense there.
To be fair to him my abiding memory will be of Fabregas waltzing past him to score the second about 10 seconds after us scoring the first. _________________ Nobody likes Grasses
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:02 pm Post subject: Re: Spurs captain retires. Only 6 years after his knees did.
Maybe change the title...
"My career was over 30 seconds into my debut"
LEDLEY KING astonishingly admits he has been injured for his ENTIRE football career.
Spurs ace King was forced to retire last week at the age of 31 after tearfully conceding that his left knee could no longer stand the rigours of top-flight football.
But, for the first time, he has confessed that he has been crocked for 13 years — ever since he made his full debut in a match at Derby in October 1999.
He revealed: “It’s amazing that I played as long as I did really when I think back to that game at Pride Park.
“It was my first start for Spurs, I was playing in midfield and after about 30 seconds I was clattered by Rory Delap.
“I just about managed to complete the game but I needed an operation on my left knee afterwards which kept me out for six weeks. I’ve been having operations on that knee ever since.
“You could say that was the start of the end and it was only four days after my 19th birthday.”
King learned to live with the injury over the years. For the last five seasons he barely trained but, with the help of the Spurs physios and some medicinal aid, he was able to perform in games.
Not only that, he earned rave reviews from his managers and opposition players. Few doubt he could have played for the likes of Barcelona or Real Madrid had he been fully fit.
King could have given England a much-needed boost too and earned four times his haul of 21 caps.
He said: “I quickly grasped that I was never going to be as good as I wanted to be but I still felt I could be very good.
“It was probably most frustrating for the first year or so but it could have all been over after that first game so I came to accept how things were.
“There is a lot of disappointment though because I know it could have been different.”
It was in a home defeat by Norwich towards the end of the season that alarm bells started ringing loudly. City won 2-1 and King had a nightmare.
He recalled: “I’d had an accidental clash in training with a young keeper a few weeks before when I decided to throw myself about a bit and the knee was becoming a real problem again.
“But that Norwich game sticks out as probably the worst of my life. I just wasn’t at it at all. There weren’t too many times when I’ve come off the pitch and felt I was terrible but that was definitely one of them.
“Afterwards I was looking at my knee thinking ‘Can I ever get this right again?’
“Even then I’m not sure I saw the end coming. My last game was a 1-0 defeat at QPR but I didn’t know it was to be my final match. I felt like a machine which you could always find a way to fix.
“There were plenty of times my knee didn’t feel great on a Friday but I knew I would be all right for the Saturday. It was only halfway through last season where, for the first time, I wasn’t enjoying my football.
“Some days I could wake up and it would be agony and I would pray that the next day it would be OK.
“We managed to find a routine that got me peaking on match day with the help of antiinflammatories.
“I tried not to rely on them but 48 hours leading up to a game I would take a few to keep the swelling and pain down before a game.
“The physios and medical team were brilliant at finding ways of getting me out there. Most of my managers were great about my preparation although Juande Ramos found it difficult to understand a player couldn’t train.
“His training regime was tough and put me through more than I wanted.
“The knee blew up and then he understood it was right to follow the way we’d been doing it before. I would always try to train on the Friday with the lads. If the knee didn’t feel right then I would just jog.
“But I was in every day in the gym or around the place. I had a big problem with muscular injuries through not training and most of my work was about managing that and making sure I didn’t pull up in a game.”
King is looking to a future working as a Spurs ambassador and with the Skills programme in which the club help youngsters in the community.
There is talk of widening that role across London with the support of the Mayor’s office.
He also plans to take his badges with a view to becoming a coach or a manager. But would he be any good?
He laughed: “I haven’t a clue. No one really knows until they give it a try but I would like to work with kids and go from there. I want to see what I’ve got.”
King can see one major benefit about packing the game in — he might have some decent conversation at last.
He added: “Anyone I met in the street and other players I knew, they would always ask ‘How’s the knee?’ And every day I turned up at the training ground the first question was ‘How’s the knee?’
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:26 pm Post subject: Re: Spurs captain retires. Only 6 years after his knees did.
Nem wrote:
Maybe change the title...
"My career was over 30 seconds into my debut"
LEDLEY KING astonishingly admits he has been injured for his ENTIRE football career.
Spurs ace King was forced to retire last week at the age of 31 after tearfully conceding that his left knee could no longer stand the rigours of top-flight football.
But, for the first time, he has confessed that he has been crocked for 13 years — ever since he made his full debut in a match at Derby in October 1999.
He revealed: “It’s amazing that I played as long as I did really when I think back to that game at Pride Park.
“It was my first start for Spurs, I was playing in midfield and after about 30 seconds I was clattered by Rory Delap.
“I just about managed to complete the game but I needed an operation on my left knee afterwards which kept me out for six weeks. I’ve been having operations on that knee ever since.
“You could say that was the start of the end and it was only four days after my 19th birthday.”
King learned to live with the injury over the years. For the last five seasons he barely trained but, with the help of the Spurs physios and some medicinal aid, he was able to perform in games.
Not only that, he earned rave reviews from his managers and opposition players. Few doubt he could have played for the likes of Barcelona or Real Madrid had he been fully fit.
King could have given England a much-needed boost too and earned four times his haul of 21 caps.
He said: “I quickly grasped that I was never going to be as good as I wanted to be but I still felt I could be very good.
“It was probably most frustrating for the first year or so but it could have all been over after that first game so I came to accept how things were.
“There is a lot of disappointment though because I know it could have been different.”
It was in a home defeat by Norwich towards the end of the season that alarm bells started ringing loudly. City won 2-1 and King had a nightmare.
He recalled: “I’d had an accidental clash in training with a young keeper a few weeks before when I decided to throw myself about a bit and the knee was becoming a real problem again.
“But that Norwich game sticks out as probably the worst of my life. I just wasn’t at it at all. There weren’t too many times when I’ve come off the pitch and felt I was terrible but that was definitely one of them.
“Afterwards I was looking at my knee thinking ‘Can I ever get this right again?’
“Even then I’m not sure I saw the end coming. My last game was a 1-0 defeat at QPR but I didn’t know it was to be my final match. I felt like a machine which you could always find a way to fix.
“There were plenty of times my knee didn’t feel great on a Friday but I knew I would be all right for the Saturday. It was only halfway through last season where, for the first time, I wasn’t enjoying my football.
“Some days I could wake up and it would be agony and I would pray that the next day it would be OK.
“We managed to find a routine that got me peaking on match day with the help of antiinflammatories.
“I tried not to rely on them but 48 hours leading up to a game I would take a few to keep the swelling and pain down before a game.
“The physios and medical team were brilliant at finding ways of getting me out there. Most of my managers were great about my preparation although Juande Ramos found it difficult to understand a player couldn’t train.
“His training regime was tough and put me through more than I wanted.
“The knee blew up and then he understood it was right to follow the way we’d been doing it before. I would always try to train on the Friday with the lads. If the knee didn’t feel right then I would just jog.
“But I was in every day in the gym or around the place. I had a big problem with muscular injuries through not training and most of my work was about managing that and making sure I didn’t pull up in a game.”
King is looking to a future working as a Spurs ambassador and with the Skills programme in which the club help youngsters in the community.
There is talk of widening that role across London with the support of the Mayor’s office.
He also plans to take his badges with a view to becoming a coach or a manager. But would he be any good?
He laughed: “I haven’t a clue. No one really knows until they give it a try but I would like to work with kids and go from there. I want to see what I’ve got.”
King can see one major benefit about packing the game in — he might have some decent conversation at last.
He added: “Anyone I met in the street and other players I knew, they would always ask ‘How’s the knee?’ And every day I turned up at the training ground the first question was ‘How’s the knee?’
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