Jack Wilshere Resorts to an Exogen Machine and Fabio Capello Quits His Job

Jack Andrew Wilshere played a lot of football last season and excelled admirably under the tutelage of Arsene Wenger. He received the coveted PFA Young Player of the Year award and he let his zeal for football and youthful exuberance get the better of him when he declared that he wanted to play for England in the Under-21 European Championships that took place last summer.

Wilshere was in the middle of a mini tug-of-war between his manager and the England hierarchy, but Arsenal won the bout and prevented the lad from playing in the tourney. England went to the tournament with the likes of Jordan Henderson and Jack Rodwell but fell by the roadside at some point in the tournament.

Wilshere was warned that he’ll suffer a burnout and some light was thrown to the 2007 Copa America where Gilberto Silva lost his place in the squad because he complained to Wenger that he was fatigued. Mathieu Flamini the Flanimal stepped into Gilberto Silva’s shoes in the midfield and forged a great understanding with Cesc Fabregas.

Flamini played a boatload of matches that season and his body gave up on him in the Spring of 2008 when Arsenal visited Anfield in the Champions League quarterfinals. Wilshere was tipped to make a stunning comeback,but he suffered a recurrence of the stress fracture in his ankle.

Unlike Abou Diaby who had gone globetrotting to save his injury-plagued career, Jack Wilshere has resorted to an Exogen machine in a bid to fix up his ankle in time to represent manager-less England in this summer’s European Championships. Jack Wilshere made a plea to the machine on Twitter:

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@JackWilshere: "Dear exogen machine...please heal me quicker...love from your number one customer!"

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An Exogen machine is a non-invasive ultrasound bone-healing medical device manufactured by Smith and Nephew and is the only bone healing device proved to accelerate the healing of fractures. It is a self-administered treatment that can be used at home or at work, once daily for 20 minutes, or as prescribed by a physician.

Footballers have gone through extreme measures to nurse injuries (such as using horse placentas), so I hope that the Exogen machine would help Jack return to full fitness. Despite the encouraging performance from Tomas Rosicky against Blackburn and the hard work Aaron Ramsey has put all season long, Arsenal’s midfield misses Jack Wilshere dearly.

Here are 10 reasons why Arsenal misses Jack Wilshere.

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Scott Carson achieved legendary status for the worst possible reason when he truly “justified” Steve McClaren’s decision to select him above the likes of David James and Paul Robinson in England’s crunch Euro 2008 qualifier against Croatia. The manager’s decision to leave David Beckham on the bench was another puzzle as the substitute created a superb assist for Peter Crouch before English hearts where broken by Mladen Petric.

Steve McClaren was rightly sacked for England’s failure to qualify for Euro 2008. After some deliberation in seeking a new manager, names like Jose Mourinho, Marcello Lippi and Martin O’ Neill were mentioned, but Fabio Capello got the nod to take England forward. The Italian manager was handed a fat salary with the task of taking England to the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012, which was duly achieved.

In February 2010, Capello stripped John Terry off the England captaincy following his shagging chronicles with Wayne Bridge’s ex-concubine. In the 2010 World Cup, England put up a poor showing in a group that contained the United States, Slovenia and Algeria but they were ousted from the tournament by the youthful, rampant and efficient German Machines.

John Terry was on the back pages of every sports tabloid in the tail end of 2011 for his alleged racial abuse hauled at Queens Park Rangers' Anton Ferdinand. An investigation took place and a trial was scheduled after the European Championships this summer.

Following the hysteria surrounding the allegations levelled against John Terry, the FA stripped him of the captaincy for the second time in his England career that has spanned for nine years as he made his England debut in June 2003 against Serbia.

This hasn’t gone down well with Fabio Capello and he has tendered his resignation with immediate effect. The master tactician declared that he’ll leave the beautiful game for good after the European Championships. It’s sad to see how a highly honored football talisman called it quits.