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Carr owes Birmingham career to club doc

Submitted by tribalfootball.com on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 10:38

Birmingham City fullback Stephen Carr has revealed he owes his success at St Andrews to the club's doctor.

Carr was all set to hang up his boots last Christmas before Alex McLeish, the Birmingham manager, called.

It helped greatly that Carr had been recommended to McLeish by Ian McGuinness, Birmingham’s club doctor, who knew Carr from when their paths crossed briefly at Newcastle United. In that last year under Kevin Keegan, Carr had broken down four times with hamstring injuries and the widespread misconception within the game was that he was too injury-prone to take a punt on.

Carr told the Sunday Times: “I owe a big thanks to Ian for putting in a word for me. He came in there and he realised it was just a basic hamstring problem, I wasn’t injury-prone. That problem with the hamstrings was just from being rushed back.”

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 13:14.

I presume they mean at the time I'm talking about last year because the article states that Ian McGuinness 'recommended' him to the manager ok why would a doctor recommend a player to the clubs manager? McGuinness only started working for Blues in a full-time capacity three months ago and he certainly wasn't the club doctor last year.

This has to be complete bullshit because the week we signed Carr he played against Crystal Palace that same week. Carr signed originally a one month deal the day before the game prior to that he had been training for a month. He had not been playing football for about 6 months so how could he possibly have been carrying an injury at that time?

Carr was injured for a small amount of time at the start of this season I think but it wasn't anything serious but even then there was no club doctor.

This article is pure bullshit.

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