Scholes & Carra's Most Gruesome Injury Stories | The Overlap Fan Debate
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
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We’re back with another Fan Debate, brought to you by Sky Bet. This time, Paul Scholes and Jamie Carragher are joined by former Manchester United senior physio Russ Hayes.
They take a deep dive into the world of football fitness, exploring injury prevention, recovery, and the vital role of physios and sports scientists. Scholsey and Carra share their own experiences, including the worst injuries they suffered and what players really think of medical staff.
How hard is it to keep an injury-prone player fit? And do physios have a bigger impact on performance than we realise?
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00:00 – Promo
00:49 – Introduction - Russ Hayes former Physiotherapist at Manchester United
04:33 – Russ Hayes on hamstring injuries
06:32 – The impact of mentality on injuries
09:19 – Trying to get back from injuries early & injury prone players
10:32 – Gareth Roberts on injuries at Liverpool
12:30 – The relationship between managers and physios
16:09 – Flav on injuries at Tottenham Hotspur
20:37 – Paul Scholes on getting a blood clot in his eye
22:24 – James McNicholas’s question on players wanting to play when injured
25:13 – Fulham fan Sarah’s question to Russ Hayes
27:31 – The Howden Report explained
30:50 – Jamie Carragher’s broken leg
33:33 – Newcastle fan Lee on the change in football gear
36:23 – Who is to blame for injuries at a club?
38:16 – The Treatment Room / The room of truth
41:12 – Manchester City fan Luke on injuries
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| 0:00.0 | I had a blood clot on my eye that just burst. |
| 0:02.3 | See you went blind, they'll get more hits on the show. |
| 0:23.5 | Medical department do not injure players. I can remember Stephen Gerard, getting an epigreeial. That's a childbirth, isn't it? Mickey Burt took a throw, and I saw about three balls coming up there. I used to look at a lot of my teammates in the treatment room with a lot of disdain. if I'm being totally honest, sometimes I think I think you can play. |
| 0:39.6 | Because he's on loan from Arsenal, who does the medical care for him? Do physios cover their ass a little bit? You're looking at the scans and you're like, to be honest, mate, we think you can play. The fans are just, oh, you know what he's again. There are actually some managers who think the doctors as well, aren't they? |
| 0:41.0 | Well, yeah, there are. |
| 0:42.4 | Some doctors who think they're managers. |
| 0:43.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:53.4 | Welcome to a new episode of the fan debate brought to you by Skybet, |
| 0:59.5 | and we're delighted to be joined by our special guest, physio and sports scientist, Russ Hayes. |
| 1:04.4 | Well, Russ, put me right and tell me sort of, you know, your background and what's going on. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, so I've been a physio for sort of 20 plus years. |
| 1:13.1 | Worked in the NHS like most do initially and then moved into the MOD, so worked for the military for six or seven years, or musculoskeletal, which is sort of sports injuries, |
| 1:18.9 | orthopaedic-related injuries. |
| 1:20.7 | I really enjoyed that. |
| 1:21.7 | Got to work with some sort of really privileged people. |
| 1:24.5 | And then my wife met her at uni. |
| 1:31.3 | She's from Manchester. We travelled north, settled, |
| 1:37.6 | and yeah, got invited into United. Worked initially as an academy physio, sort of casual, |
| 1:46.5 | as you do, worked up through every age group. And then sort of my last job, really, before I finished finished was working the reserves for the last six, seven years and looking after the players that were sort of transitioning |
| 1:50.9 | from the reserves into the first team. |
| 1:53.8 | Scores, that Manchester United, paths didn't cross now, are any stage? |
| 1:58.8 | No, no, I think I work work with, you know, Tom Hughes, |
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