The wing was told he might never play again after suffering a horrific knee injury but was lining up for his club within a year
Whatever Marland Yarde goes on to accomplish in a career that has earned him 13
England caps, nothing in his mind will match lining up for Sale against Wasps in the Premiership Cup one day before the first anniversary of a knee injury so horrific he was warned he may never play again. There were five minutes to go against Newcastle when Yarde slipped and two players fell on his left leg, dislocating and rupturing every ligament in his knee.
“A number of people did not believe I would play again,” Yarde says. When the now 27-year-old was operated on, the surgeon told him his chances of playing again were only 50-50 and that it would be 12 to 18 months before he returned to training.