St Helens star Mark Percival has told how just weeks ago he feared he might never play again - but is now steaming into the Super League Grand Final.
The England centre, 28, faces Leeds in Saturday’s Old Trafford decider as Saints bid for an unprecedented fourth straight title. But he has spent most of this campaign hobbling around, sidelined by a “weird” knee injury which simply didn’t want to go away. After four months out, Percival finally did make a timely return in Saturday’s semi-final win over Salford.
But it is only now he’s revealed the full alarming truth about the problems he’s faced. Percival explained: “I had a small fracture in my knee that I played with for a few weeks. The pain management was OK and I could do it and wanted to play. But then it caused bone fluid which isn’t good. It can cause other things to go really bad in the structure of your knee.
