By Stuart Fuller Lewes FC Chairman

WHEN the Bundesliga retur ned in May after a ten-week hiatus, there were 14 individual muscle injuries after the first round of fixtures alone. That’s not including the injuries picked up on the return to training before the league games commenced again.
One Premier League squad on returning to full training in May reportedly had seven muscle injuries in their first week back. These are the full-time players, with full-time world experts, in many cases, looking after them. Under normal circumstances, Non- League players would have eight weeks off ...