The life of an England physiotherapist can be an unforgiving one, publicly blamed for injuries you have no control over by the biggest managers in football, while players report to camp with an injury the clubs feel they shouldn't play with, yet declare themselves fit.
In my time as England physio, I don't think those pressures were ever more acute than when Wayne Rooney injured his metatarsal weeks before the 2006 World Cup. It didn't help that I was also the Arsenal physio at the time, then Manchester United's biggest rivals.