Plus: top-flight careers over four decades, more big non-league gates and Garth Crooks presenting a politics show on BBC2Mail us your questions or tweet @TheKnowledge_GU“After seeing Rory Burns miss an
England cricket match because of an injury caused playing football, which footballers have missed matches playing other sports?” tweets Mattskating.
“Rangers’ Marco Negri suffered a serious eye injury playing squash with Sergio Porrini,” tweets Jono Bolton. “Before that, he’d scored 33 goals in 26 games.” Ah yes, February 1998 in Glasgow, with Rangers battling for a 10th consecutive league title. Negri takes up the story: “He was the wrong choice of playmate for squash because it should not have been a game in which winning became everything and yet with Sergio that was impossible … At a speed that felt like 100mph that sphere of hard, hot rubber cannoned off the concrete and straight into the centre of my eye.”