Manchester United goalkeeper reveals 'unbelievable pain' behind early retirement

27.03.2022 - 08:05 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Young Manchester United goalkeeper Paul Woolston has explained why he has been forced to hang up his gloves for good.

The 23-year-old has had to call time on his short playing career due to a persistent hip injury that at one stage left him in a wheelchair after an operation. The young United shot stopper wrote about the events that led him to make the tough decision to retire, in am emotional message on United’s club website.

He said: “As a footballer you get injuries, that’s just part of the game, and as a goalkeeper I’ve always put my body on the line without a second thought. Whatever the problem was, it would settle down sooner rather than later.

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“Just over a year ago, though, I felt a problem in my hip which just wouldn’t settle. I knew something wasn’t right.” He added: “Eventually I explained it all to the physios and I was referred to a specialist so that I could have minor surgery on it.

“Going into theatre, everybody was expecting it to be a case of tidying up the joint and the socket and then I could get back to playing. I was still coming around in the recovery room when the surgeon told me that I’d have to come back because what he’d found inside was much worse than anyone had anticipated.”

Woolston recalled how, after undergoing a second, “more complicated” operation, he was in excruciating pain and had to learn to “trust” his hip once more. The former England Under-18 said: “The hardest part of everything I’ve done, which I’ll never forget, was leaving the hospital after the second operation and trying to get in the car to go home. The pain was just unbelievable.

“After that, I initially spent time using

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