My lost World Cup: Inside recovery with Arsenal & England's Jordan Nobbs

24 7 I'll think about the money, obviously it was the hardest injury I've had so far. I think you don't really know how your mind is going to react until you are forced to face those situations and realize how strong you are to do so. be and just believe in the process, but yeah, there have been a lot of ups and downs along the journey, yeah, it felt great, probably the best, well it was the best start to the season I've ever had in an Arsenal shirt, he has a lot of goals and I felt like the girls team that we had was in an incredible place and you know, at that time I didn't even think about knee injuries or having had any injuries in the past, so I felt like I was in one of the best possible places to play for club and country, uh, the preparation I had was very tired that week, but I mean, it's football, right?

You know you have weeks where you are tired. I've been tired before in the past, so I was. really tired and I remember I had a terrible night's sleep and yeah, I scored a goal that we were winning and I literally went to press the ball and the next thing I knew it was like a few seconds where everything stopped and I was just literally thinking, oh God. mine, i did

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knobs on my knees, it seems to hurt a little now, this could be a serious worry on everyone's faces, yes, i had no doubt that i hadn't done something serious, the panic of hearing the pop obviously shakes you up and then you know I told physio sama to get me some oxygen or something because I was obviously panicking and then when I came back and took the brace off I literally couldn't even.

I moved my knee and lit up as if at that moment I knew it was pretty bad. Yeah, I just told him, "I'm going to miss the

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cup. I'm going to miss the

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cup because I knew that timeline was so." Bottom line, you know, any kind of knee injury, I'm an emotional person, I don't know why I wear my heart on my sleeve and I'm not worried or afraid to tell people who help me that I'm missing out on something like that. . major tournament um so I think that's the blow of um I don't know I'm over it now but I tore my ACL and it was a clean ACL tear normally when you tear it your meniscus usually comes off with he. but mine didn't, so that means the process was a little easier.

You can get off crutches faster. They can do it in different ways, but in mine they took out my hamstring and created a new ACL reconstruction to obviously allow my body to accept it. and form a new ligament, you know, nowadays, yeah, it's not the end of my career, an injury and I'm in a place where I can get fit and hopefully come back stronger. The operation was, I mean, you're nervous when you leave. Naturally, but I think that afterwards I was very, very sick from the drugs, very sick. I couldn't move at all. I couldn't even go to the bathroom.

And yeah, trying to lift your leg and stuff like that felt like that. heavy um and I think it's just realizing you know, until you get through each stage of rehab, you know how many times I've been like, I can't imagine bending my knee again, I can't imagine straightening it, I can't imagine. jumping or skipping, I can't believe how many different stages they go through to get you back on the court, oh it feels weird, it's going to feel weird, so where they cut the nerves, everything will change, so you have to try to get back to it. normal, so you have to start playing with this now, yeah, okay, so start touching it and start getting used to moving.

Do you think we can achieve it? Take away the pen. Okay, yeah, it'll come off when we start working, oh, I don't like that one, okay, yeah, so when you're here I want you to try moving the skin. Yeah, okay, okay, I guess I naively did it. I didn't know anything about ACL until I did mine and I didn't realize the process that players went through to regain mobility and, you know, I think you always assume that maybe you'd freeze it and eventually be able to do it. move it again, but that is not the case with scar tissue in the ACL.

It's just frustrating. Everything was frustrating. You know, walking up the stairs or going out for a drink and you realize how lifeless you are and you know you depend on so many people. people who will help you during that period of time after the operation and you want to continue doing what you have dreamed of your whole life and football is all I want to do. I guess the hardest part is that everyone is so good when someone When you get injured playing football, the first thing you ask is how's your knee, how's your knee, how's your knee, and I think there comes a point. where every new person you meet is how your knee is and you have to regurgitate everything.

Those things are repeated every day with the same feeling and they seem emotional and you really just want to say that I was asked to appear in the media for the Brighton and Man City game, but I just wanted to, you know, take the opportunities naturally . While I can, but I'm also with the girls and celebrating as a team and, you know, I want the team to know that I'm really proud of what they did. They took the dog from Daniela, but the leader quickly recovers it. again and goes to mccabe and fires the shots in oh

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they're going to win the title and they're doing it in style uh you got it now you gotta get more now yeah kimmy you can lift that trophy okay yeah yeah yeah no I don't like it, come back please, yes it was, it was great to be there and run on the field, you know, celebrate with Beth when she scored and yes, I love this club and I want to be a part of every moment.

I needed it to be very special and you know we definitely partied all the way home, I mean everyone was very relaxed, obviously Joe was, you know, we knew we had won, but there was still a very big place where we wanted to win, you know. We didn't want Manchester City to go unbeaten Williamson for Mitchell. I'll be taking the photos, so I think when Emma Mitchell scored it was like a relief of how hard we've worked this year and how amazing Joe has been. developing our team, so I think when he scored it was just amazing, I mean you know, I had my Ian Right jersey on, you know, I just wanted to live every moment, so it was great for all of us to experience that together, you know, injured or he wasn't hurt, I went up to my dad to give him a hug, he just whispered in my ear, he always calls me girly, so he said go away, you've literally been a big part of this team, don't forget it and then, obviously.

I cried and I got emotional, you know, I want to be a world cup for him and how hard it is, you know, he developed me and um, just being there through it all, so I know he's really proud of me and it was nice. For him it was happy tears I guess, but yeah, like I said, I wear my hat on my sleeve and I'm not afraid to show myself on the move, so I've been out for about five months and I'm in the field doing about three. kilometers now twice a week, so yeah, it's a lovely time.

I feel in a better physical and mental place. You know, like I said when the world cup starts. You know, I'm not sure how I'll feel, but as an Arsenal player. and the way I am training is that he is in a good place and I hope that these next four months he can be on the field and progress in football. Dan Carter wrote on the board how many months I have left and little by little we continued counting that. down, so, yeah, we know it's a long journey, but you know it's just football, it's just a knee injury and you know it's something you can overcome.