West Brom’s Long reveals secret to speedy recovery and energetic work-rate: Coco Pops
Shane Long of West Bromwich Albion recently made a surprising come-back from a severe knee injury following a horrific tackle from Aston Villa’s http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alan-Hutton-c4253. Physiotherapists and medical staff had said that Long was ‘lucky not to have two broken legs’. They
said that Long would be out for atleast the next 6 weeks.
A month later, Long was back, defying all odds and fighting down anybody who said he should rest and not risk further injury. He wanted to play. And that’s all he knew.
And boy did he play well. Scoring the winner on 19th November against Bolton Wanderers as he skimmed in a cross from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nicky-Shorey-c27735 into the net, Shane Long has now scored four times in ten matches and has been phenomenal for West Brom’s campaign
this year.
In a recovery that has left Physiologists boggled, Long has attributed the recovery and his energetic way of playing to something a little less than traditional.
Kellogg’s Coco Pops.
In an interview yesterday, Team-mate and West Bromwich winger, Jerome Thomas has revealed that the secret to Shane’s energetic pace and tireless work-rate is a bowl of his favourite cereal before every match.
“He won't play a game before eating Coco Pops beforehand. That is where he gets the energy from. He brings his own box of cereal to the games. That is his ritual before every game but it seems to do the trick,” said Thomas.
No. This is not an advertisement. Or it might be and intricate publicity stunt. But even if Long’s is for real, this won’t be the first time we’ve heard of football players getting their ‘energy’ from surprising sources.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 captain, revealed that he had used the same shin-pads for the past 10 years because he believed that they brought him luck. In a nightmarish ordeal he lost the shin-pads at the Nou Camp in 2004. When he panicked, Lampard lent
him his own and Terry has been wearing those since.
Terry also has to have the same seat on the bus, tie the tapes round his socks exactly three times and cut his tubular grip for shin-pads the same size every game.
"I drive to games listening to the same Usher CD in my car,” said Terry.
He also prefers to always use the same urinal in the dressing room toilets at Stamford Bridge, and if the spot is taken he will wait until he can use it, even if there are others free.
Star-Footballer http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899 that won the World Cup in 1998 used Barthez’ body as an idol, touching it before every match; they
also used to listen to ‘Gloria Gaynor's 1970s hit "I Will Survive" in the changing-room before every match.
Nothing however compares to the superstitious Zimbabwean side Midlands Portland Cement, who went into a crocodile ridden river – all seventeen of them – in a ritual to regain the team’s natural harmony. Only 16 of them came out.
Long’s Coco Pops ritual might not be as heavily bent on superstitious benefits than on nutritional ones, but in either case it’s not the craziest thing we’ve heard our esteemed footballers doing.
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