Supported by 3rd and 5th metatarsal. if you're going to knack a metatarsal, do one where you've got a metatarsal t'either side. Five years ago metatarsals didn't exist. And if they did, they never got fractured or broken. Mind you, boots were made of lead metal and concrete. They weren't slippers. And they were black, never neon blue or, God forbid, white. "Modern boots are poncey", AIRTyke "Hear! Hear!" Metatarsal Monthly
I would suggest.... A fine Rioja or Chablis to fuel the wit with 3 or 4 ales for the initial idea. A large and sloppy post-operative curry clearly prompted the angst.
This whole Metatarsal thing Is this a new thing,well in last four years anyway.I don't seem to remember ever hearing of this injury, now the injury list for World Cup is a who's who of metatarsal injury 4th metatarsal 3rd metatarsal 5th metatarsal Whats it all about and why only now? Add it to Al Queda,War On Terror and chav for things of the last 10 years
RE: hows the eyes? Amazing Mick ! Just wonderful. Best £3k ever spent by some distance. Can read a number plate now at 50 yards and getting better. Before it would have been 'what car?'
The irony is that.. Last week Rooney launched a new football boot by Nike and this was the first game in which he wore them. It never happened with a pair of Stanley Barcelonas.
this is only a new thing in as much as the players are wrapped in cotton wool nowadays a dead leg or a cold (re-named a terrible flu) is enough to keep a player out for a month.</p> i Have broken my metetarsels before and yes they wrapped it up and i couldnt play football but i did it again this season and decided i would carry on plying. sure im no wayne rooney but i played 7 matches with that injury and it healed its self (i admit it did get painful after a while in the match) so if hes not fit after resting for 6 weeks then this modern football really is a lark with long term injuries for less than nothing and diving degos all over the game. bahhhhhh</p>
Broke my first metatarsal in 1958 Got it trapped in the hydraulic of one of the old grey Fergie tractors, whilst drilling seed - at least helping the farmer. Pampered? I screamed the place down, but the farmer didn't think I'd broken anything. I was damn sure I had. I had to walk a mile back to the farm and then cycle two miles back to Ackworth. Then my mum hid me in the cupboard because we were going on holiday the next day and the doctor was coming to check if my dad was well enough to go. They only started believing I had hurt my foot when I was still complaining a week later. Memory says it was in pot for four weeks and then took a lot of rehab to get the muscles from seizing up. Good tractors, those Fergies, if you watched your feet, that is.
In old school language I 'broke my big toe' trying to jump over an abandoned car on my skateboard. I wasn't that good though. When I say 'jump' over a car, obviously I mean I let my skateboard roll under the car, while I scrambled furiously over the top to jump off the back for a perfect and impressive landing. What actually happened was somewhat different though. I got up enough speed, launched myself up onto the bonnet, kicked the windscreen with my '1st metatarsel', broke it, fell over clutching my toe and rolled sideways off the car for a perfect and impressive landing, on my back. Then fetched my skateboard from down the road, trying to make it look like a clever stunt and 'faking' a limp. The doctor told me you couldn't really do much for a broken toe, you just tape it to the next one, which he did. I played for England the following weekend.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/teams/england/4964286.stm So Owen and King also have broken bones in their feet - is it these new lightweight boots that provide more feeling for hitting the ball but don't provide enough protection for the foot?
