Martin Boyle has revealed he might have been playing through an ACL injury for up to SEVEN years before his World Cup heartbreak.
The Hibs star suffered a hammer blow when an ACL problem ruled him out of Qatar, and that misery was compounded when his club later revealed he won't kick a ball again this season. Speaking to the media in his homeland, he admits the problem could have been in the works since as far back as 2015. He said: “Basically what I have is a discoid meniscus, where I’ve got a larger meniscus than normal. So that was keeping everything in place, it was keeping my cruciate stable, and long story short, I could have had this ACL injury for about six, seven years and been playing through it.
“It’s a bit of a tricky one. I’ve been trying to digest it myself - you get put to sleep and you wake up and your whole knee’s been reconstructed. I think that’s why I’m kind of optimistic. I’ve played that long with an injury that’s severe, and when I did damage the meniscus it’s kind of just not been stable enough for my ACL to hold and that’s why I’ve had that surgery.”
