Source: TheGuardian
Matty James: ‘I was in so much pain I’ll remember it for the rest of my life’
The Leicester City midfielder is savouring his return to the side and dreaming of an England call-up after tortuous 865 days left him at breaking pointAmid all the euphoria that accompanied those wild celebrations at the King Power Stadium on the evening that Leicester City were crowned champions of England, it escaped unnoticed that one player was struggling to hold everything together. “I felt I didn’t deserve to be there, to be pictured,” Matty James says. “If you ask Danny Drinkwater, when I lifted the Premier League trophy I went to him, he had me in his arms and I was in tears. I was crying my eyes out, purely because I had no part to play in it whatsoever.”James spent that entire season – the most famous in Leicester’s history – on the sidelines, physically unable to contribute after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the penultimate home game of the previous campaign and mentally tormented by the once-in-a-lifetime experience that was unfolding on the pitch while he was fighting to save his career. “I was going home thinking: ‘What is going on here? The club is going to win the Premier League and I’m nowhere near it,’” James says. “It wasn’t that I didn’t want it to happen. But it was hard because I felt like I was on a rollercoaster going all the way down and the club was going in the opposite direction.” Related: Jamie Vardy sees his academy bear fruit with first batch of graduates Every member of staff wanted me to get some minutes but I just don’t think Ranieri understood Related: Rúben Neves: ‘You're running the whole game here. In Portugal there’s a lot of time-wasting’ Continue reading......read full article
