Jonathan Bird
@londonknee.bsky.social
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I’m a knee surgeon and I like to run. Season Ticket holder @Arsenal (Block 19). Find me at Lewisham Hospital or via @OrthopaedicSpec New Podcast - Injury Tine. Link in pinned post.
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New “Injury Time” Podcast! After a fan died recently at a game we talk medical teams at grounds for the fans, Ødegaard’s injury and player workload during the International break. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Injury Time Episode 8. Medical temas for the crowd, Odegaard's Injury and player workload
Podcast Episode · Injury Time · 12/10/2025 · 38m
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londonknee.bsky.social
New “Injury Time” Podcast! After a fan died recently at a game we talk medical teams at grounds for the fans, Ødegaard’s injury and player workload during the International break. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Injury Time Episode 8. Medical temas for the crowd, Odegaard's Injury and player workload
Podcast Episode · Injury Time · 12/10/2025 · 38m
podcasts.apple.com
londonknee.bsky.social
Take an inch out of every seat and we could fit in another 5,000
londonknee.bsky.social
New “Injury Time” Podcast! After a fan died recently at a game we talk medical teams at grounds for the fans, Ødegaard’s injury and player workload during the International break. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Injury Time Episode 8. Medical temas for the crowd, Odegaard's Injury and player workload
Podcast Episode · Injury Time · 12/10/2025 · 38m
podcasts.apple.com
londonknee.bsky.social
And the ones that were made are “old and clapped”
londonknee.bsky.social
Perhaps it’s about convergent evolution, and the size of a human is similar to other advanced species from other worlds?
londonknee.bsky.social
We have the widest seats in the league I think? A mate went recently to the refurbished Kop and said the seats are tiny by comparison!
londonknee.bsky.social
That’s correct. They wouldn’t give us more than 60k, so the plan was to have narrower seats in the future and have 10K more. I think the plans have given beyond that now.
londonknee.bsky.social
I doubt the council will be a major issue, I think as a club we have the highest % in the prem of fans who come by public transport. Arsenal / H&I / Finsbury Park are all well set up for mass crowds.
londonknee.bsky.social
My seats are perfect for me at The Emirates, so I’m not sure I particularly want a big upheaval with the stadium expansion. But with infrastructure work exempt from PSR, it’s clearly going to happen. archive.ph/NqjMN
londonknee.bsky.social
I don’t think so. If there had been he’d have been straight off.
londonknee.bsky.social
6 weeks if I’m wrong, 2-3 weeks if I’m right.
londonknee.bsky.social
What made me look again was an MRI report from a patient with the same injury, but NOT an MCL injury as no pain stretching the MCL. Sure enough, loads of oedema around the MCL, radiologist has reported it as “grade 2 MCL injury”
londonknee.bsky.social
I’ve re-looked at the Odegaard injury again, and it’s a direct blow on the medial side of the knee. I don’t think it’s a “real” MCL injury (where the MCL is stretched after a blow from the other side, but it’s soft tissue swelling *around* the MCL, that makes it look like it’s injured on the MRI
londonknee.bsky.social
An MCL injury makes no sense with that mechanism of injury (a smack on the knee directly), unless he had another injury as he went down. The fact that he was still able to run around makes me think it’ll be short term (max 6 weeks, prob less)
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"medial collateral ligament injury to his left knee"

What this means in terms of severity and time away from the team? @londonknee.bsky.social

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Describe your Bluesky account in a single image
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I presumed that was it, best you can do I suppose. Data only really skewed if a promoted team hugely over performs.
londonknee.bsky.social
How do you correct for the relegated/promoted sides?
londonknee.bsky.social
Politicians setup to look like “man of the people” never looks authentic. Kier Starmer has been going to the Arsenal for decades and still plays football, yet when he’s shown watching it, it looks as awkward as that Brown/Blair “mates watching footy on the tv” scene 20 yrs ago.
londonknee.bsky.social
ALSO - running on fucked knees doesn’t fuck then more quickly than if you don’t run on already fucked knees (if they don’t give you too much pain)
londonknee.bsky.social
PS - running doesn’t fuck your knees.
londonknee.bsky.social
An MCL injury makes no sense with that mechanism of injury (a smack on the knee directly), unless he had another injury as he went down. The fact that he was still able to run around makes me think it’ll be short term (max 6 weeks, prob less)
emmanuellaine.bsky.social
"medial collateral ligament injury to his left knee"

What this means in terms of severity and time away from the team? @londonknee.bsky.social

Thanks
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After that soul sapping 2-0 loss at home to them 2 seasons ago the away fans were chanting in the queue for the tube “Rice is a cunt” I asked one of them why he was a cunt considering how much he’d done for them. He wasn’t particularly coherent in his response.