Another asked: "What's the holes in the socks about, noticed a few players with bits cut out ... footballers use long socks, usually pulled up over their calves, to keep their leg muscles warm ...

The holes allow the tension in their legs to be released, which helps to prevent them from picking up muscle problems or cramps. Footballers ... "I just cut holes in them and all of a sudden ...

Franck Ribery has said he nearly had his leg cut off due to an infection. Giuseppe Maffia/NurPhoto via Getty Images Former Bayern Munich and France winger Franck Ribery has revealed that he almost ...

but it was a deep enough cut that it opened straight up into the joint – when you looked in you could see his joint capsule moving around.’ Contact injuries within football are unavoidable but ...

The French football ... in my leg. I had contracted Staphylococcus aureus. ‘I went to the emergency room at the hospital in Austria for 12 days. I was really scared. They could have cut off ...

But playing more risks taking a toll on a body that has been battered by back surgeries, knee surgeries and a February 2021 car crash that shattered his right leg ... cut in the 2015 U.S. Open ...

Alfie was invited to present a player-of-the-match award during another game after the leg break A football club has banned small shin pads after a youth player suffered a double leg break.