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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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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 11d

New Podcast. We talk about the tragic injury to Billy Vigar and what more could football do to protect players. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Injury Time Episode 7, Billy Vigar and preventable injuries in sport

Podcast Episode · Injury Time · 28/09/2025 · 24m

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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 1d

Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 2d

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!

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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 2d

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

Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think so. If there had been he’d have been straight off.

Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 2d

6 weeks if I’m wrong, 2-3 weeks if I’m right.

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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 2d

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”

Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 2d

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

Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 4d

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)

Manu @emmanuellaine.bsky.social · 4d

"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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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 3d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 3d

I presumed that was it, best you can do I suppose. Data only really skewed if a promoted team hugely over performs.

Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 3d

How do you correct for the relegated/promoted sides?

Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 4d

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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 4d

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)

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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 4d

PS - running doesn’t fuck your knees.

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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 4d

Manu @emmanuellaine.bsky.social · 4d

"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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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 4d

I’m right by that corner and the abuse he was getting from the WHU fans was extraordinary.

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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 5d

Possibly not.

Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 5d

Almost as annoying as the media team insisting that I was in N5 earlier, shame I was clearly om N7

Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 5d

Nah, just 20 yrs of dealing with footballers! Be warned, the report might say “subchondral fracture”’it won’t be an actual fracture, but now we’re getting into my bugbare of dealing with radiologists.

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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 5d

No. That’s the positive!

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Jonathan Bird @londonknee.bsky.social · 5d

The MRI will show “subchondral bruising” but there won’t be a fracture.

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