Fulham player says leg break sounded like ‘pencil snapping’ – Club didn’t want to show him image
Last year, Fulham’s Andreas Pereira described the pain he experienced after sustaining an injury against Manchester City as “like a pencil snapping”.
The severity of the injury was so severe that the club refused to show him any pictures of it. Since then, Pereira has been able to avoid serious injury, apart from one last season when he spent 29 days in the treatment room and missed six Fulham matches. He has yet to have a serious injury in his career, with the longest lay-off coming in the 2017/18 season due to an Achilles tendon issue.
This was a major concern for the Fulham player, who stated that the club’s personnel refused to provide him with pictures of the product.
“There are different types of pain in life of course. But what immediately comes to mind is my broken fibula against Manchester City on April 30th this year,” he said.
“I went into a duel with Mannel Akanji but felt that I would not have the ball. He hit my head, so I’m off balance and I land wrong. You know that sound of a pencil snapping? That’s it.
“Strangely enough, I felt almost nothing because of the adrenaline. That’s why I first thought that my ankle ligaments were sprained or something. They didn’t want to show me the images. In hindsight, you know that it’s not good.
“Should I go to the hospital then? To be honest, we still had a while there. I had doubts about it because I hardly felt any pain. It was only in the ambulance that I started to feel the pain. Slightly, anyway. Until I received the news that my leg was broken. Then I really started to feel it.”