When is it time to call it a day if you're injury prone?

[agingerstokie]

www.skysports.com/football/news/11727/11241734/matty-fryatt-announces-retirement-from-football-after-ongoing-achilles-problems

"This is a big moment for me, but at the same time it's been a long time coming. I haven't played for nearly three years now so it was only natural.

It would have been so much easier to just run out onto the grass, feel comfortable and play a game of football, rather than go all over the world to see a surgeon in Germany, in Holland, in Portugal and getting absolutely nowhere.

When you've had half of your Achilles taken off, re-attached, bone smashed up and then put back on with someone saying you've got a good chance of coming back, it's hard to take. This is closure, really.

I was coming back in off the training pitch nearly crying, hobbling around in absolute agony. It was embarrassing. I was near enough in tears trying to run.

In the last game I played I was just like a statue. I was in real pain as well, it was ridiculous."

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I don't know if I could stomach having my body mangled in such a way just to be able to step onto the pitch again.

[wagsastokie]

When nobody is prepared to pay you a couple of million pounds a year

[lordb]

Hsrd to say.
I thought Clint Hill's endless injuries at Stoke would finish his career.
Well over ten years later he's still playing.