Arsenal U18 coach Jack Wilshere believes he never fully recovered during his playing career after an injury suffered at 19.

Wilshere has revealed the surgeon was surprised he recovered to play again.

He told the Fozcast: "I went to see the specialist surgeon and he was like 'I've never seen that. We've seen it in one person.'

"It was a snowboarder, you could imagine their ankles are locked in and they can bend it like that.

"So they got in another guy, a specialist to do the surgery, and I didn't know this until a few years later, so I then went back, it must have been about six years later I was 25 and went back to see the surgeon and he was like 'oh you're still playing?'

"He [the surgeon] showed me the notes from the surgery and it was like 'yeah might not play again, might not be able to walk'.

"I didn't know that, I think it was maybe a good thing. So I put two pins in it yeah.

"But then I paid the price, it never moved the same so then obviously it affects your knees."