Had I tried a knee slide in the various Cardiff parks, after one of my many goals, there would have been every likelihood of dislocating something. I have just watched Charlie Austin attempt to do the same following his sixteenth goal of the season...his seventh in consecutive games When will managers ban it? What a player?
I had nine stiches in a knee when I found a stone on a rugby pitch. I also played on a few pitches where your knees would have been stinking of dog **** for weeks if you'd done a knee slide!
I have dislocated my knee doing a slide before. I had dodgy knees anyway, but this finally stopped me playing when I scored a goal, did a knee slide, but my knee cap stayed where it was while the rest of me slid forward.
It's why I never had hamstring trouble, I never ran that fast. My injury wasn't even knee sliding, just found a stone.
Anyone remember the Carn Colliery pitch in Blaengarw? Looked green on top, but what was underneath? If you'd done a knee slide on that back in the 60/70's, you have taken home a hundredweight of nutty slack in your socks.
Isn't that the way solkasjar ( apologise for spelling ) ended his career by knee sliding ? Also at one point wasn't earnie banned from doing his backflips
