My knee had caused me problems ever since I injured my MCL a few years back. And, although it had been doing better recently, I’d landed on it badly in preseason training. I couldn’t afford to give it time to rest though. Not when my whole future relied upon it working. I just needed to push through the pain until the ink had dried on the scholarship contract. I couldn’t let the coaches at Ryker see my performances drop, or discover I was damaged goods, in case they withdrew their offer entirely. But now the season was in full swing with constant games and training, I wasn’t confident my knee
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