Aston Villa and England defender Tyrone Mings feared his career was over after 'exhausting all avenues' of recovery following a terrible ACL injury sustained on the opening day of last season.
Mings had three operations to try and fix the problem and was finally rewarded for his perseverance when he played his first Premier League game for 15 months in Wednesday's 3-1 win against Brentford.
Trying to stay calm and collected afterwards, the popular 31-year-old admitted: 'There were times when I genuinely did think I would not be able to recover from this knee injury, such was the severity and complication of it.