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Hazard
Maradona
Rooney
Terry Butcher
Players with high pain thresholds
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peak George Best.
Bert Trautmann
Ronaldo. Hard as nails. Got stamped on by waster/wannabe 'hardman' Ben Thatcher in the early minutes of a game against City, 2007. Literally took a boot to the stomach. Got up and eventually won a penalty from shitbag Thatcher, which he scored in front of the bluenoses.
Stuart Pearce.
Franco Baresi put in the greatest defensive performance of all time with a meniscus injury
Ronaldo & Messi - particularly Ronaldo; regularly played through the pain barrier for club & country especially in must win scenarios. Also, both regularly hacked by opposition players and almost never injured.
Maradona. From the vintage games I’ve rewatched, I’m surprised he wasn’t bound to a wheelchair later in life as a result of the sheer blows he suffered to his legs from reckless upon reckless challenges.
Generally I can mainly think of defenders:
Chiellini
Puyol
Ramos
Vidic
to name a few.
Maradona. From the vintage games I’ve rewatched, I’m surprised he wasn’t bound to a wheelchair later in life as a result of the sheer blows he suffered to his legs from reckless upon reckless challenges.
Generally I can mainly think of defenders:
Chiellini
Puyol
Ramos
Vidic
to name a few.
Id say hazard for sure got kicked up and down the country for years when he was here was rarely injured but thats probably played a part in why hes been so broken at madrid
Beckenbauer suffered a dislocated shoulder/broken collarbone and continued to play in the 1970 World Cup semi-final
Also, for what Cazorla went through after his injury to return to football/not lose his foot and play at a high level again must mean he is tough psychologically.
Rooney played through injury a couple times. I seem to remember him scoring a goal against Chelsea and then not wanting his teammates to embrace him because he was in so much pain. There was also that one game, I think against West Brom, where he wanted to come off with an injury, realized there were no subs left, and then ended up going back on and finishing the game
Also, for what Cazorla went through after his injury to return to football/not lose his foot and play at a high level again must mean he is tough psychologically.
Rooney played through injury a couple times. I seem to remember him scoring a goal against Chelsea and then not wanting his teammates to embrace him because he was in so much pain. There was also that one game, I think against West Brom, where he wanted to come off with an injury, realized there were no subs left, and then ended up going back on and finishing the game
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Didn't Fabregas convert a penalty with a broken leg for arsenal in his original incarnation?
Everyone playing at United under Moyes since he was such a person in the ass !
This guy played a cup final with a broken neck.
Hamann played the CL final with a broken foot didn't he?
Also Darren Fletcher? He was really Ill but played a fair bit which must have been tough
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15 posts and not one mention of Bryan Robson.
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Phil Neal had made 417 consecutive appearances for Liverpool. 417. Consecutive. Appearances 
"There were two occasions when I could have missed a game," Neal recalled. "One was when I got a fractured cheekbone. Roger Davis the centre forward at Derby gave me an elbow [in 1976]. I had my cheekbone lifted in line with the rest of my face to put my face back in shape.
"I chose to play against the specialist's wishes who said that I shouldn't play for a month. I got away with it.
"I got over a broken toe, but I had to play for 6 weeks with size 8.5 on one foot and size 7 on the other. Ronnie Moran made me a plaster cast on the little toe I had broken. It was uncomfortable with my normal size shoes. I had to find some way to be still able to kick a ball, tackle and maybe have a little injection to keep the pain away for 90 minutes."
"There were two occasions when I could have missed a game," Neal recalled. "One was when I got a fractured cheekbone. Roger Davis the centre forward at Derby gave me an elbow [in 1976]. I had my cheekbone lifted in line with the rest of my face to put my face back in shape.
"I chose to play against the specialist's wishes who said that I shouldn't play for a month. I got away with it.
"I got over a broken toe, but I had to play for 6 weeks with size 8.5 on one foot and size 7 on the other. Ronnie Moran made me a plaster cast on the little toe I had broken. It was uncomfortable with my normal size shoes. I had to find some way to be still able to kick a ball, tackle and maybe have a little injection to keep the pain away for 90 minutes."
Too subjective a question to answer, but I’d say you’d probably have to pick a much-fouled forward from the days of hard-men defensive markers and zero policing of foul play by referees.
So it has to be Maradona. God knows how many times that man got fouled over his career because it was the only way of reducing his impact on games.
They say he got fouled 53 times during Italia 90 and 23 times just during that 82 World Cup game vs Italy.
Not to mention that potentially career ending tackle by the butcher of Bilbao when playing for Barca, which he somehow survived.
Anyone listing messi or Ronaldo has to bear in mind the protection they get from referees which was non existent back then.
These days any old trip on either is a foul. Gentile’s 23 fouls on Maradona in one game included elbows to the face and throat, two footed tackles aplenty, scratching his hand, stamps, testicle grabbing and various other bits of super-painful shithousery that would never be permitted today.
Now imagine Maradona going through something similar in virtually every game he played. The worst that messi gets is Robertson ruffling his hair and even that makes the news.
So it has to be Maradona. God knows how many times that man got fouled over his career because it was the only way of reducing his impact on games.
They say he got fouled 53 times during Italia 90 and 23 times just during that 82 World Cup game vs Italy.
Not to mention that potentially career ending tackle by the butcher of Bilbao when playing for Barca, which he somehow survived.
Anyone listing messi or Ronaldo has to bear in mind the protection they get from referees which was non existent back then.
These days any old trip on either is a foul. Gentile’s 23 fouls on Maradona in one game included elbows to the face and throat, two footed tackles aplenty, scratching his hand, stamps, testicle grabbing and various other bits of super-painful shithousery that would never be permitted today.
Now imagine Maradona going through something similar in virtually every game he played. The worst that messi gets is Robertson ruffling his hair and even that makes the news.
Ian dowie.
Stefan Schwarz could "walk it off". Played 10 minutes with a broken bone in his leg once.
Lampard, Pele and pretty much any world class attacking player from the 50's 60's 70's.
A legend in every sense of the word. Played on with an arm sling. That semi with the Italians was named The Game of the Century.
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Schweinsteiger in the 2010 WC Final. He got roughed up pretty bad by the Argentines throughout the match. They were literally punching and kicking him. Still ran 15km and delivered a MOTM performance in the end. I think they called him the Terminator after the match. An absolute beast.
To be fair, he was not far off. Even at the age of 40+ he already moved like an old man (his other health issues didn’t help with that either); in his 50’s he walked with the pace of a drunken snail.
Yeah well said. From that era Van Basten deserves a shout for playing through injury for much of his career before he eventually succumbed and was forced to retire. He basically became the reason the tackle from behind - the free hit most defenders had on attackers - was outlawed and punished routinely with a red card from 1994 onwards.
Amen. The papers tried to make a relatively big deal about Smalling giving Messi a bloody nose in a collision. For Maradona that type o thing happened game after game. And not accidentally either!
Although, as brave as he certainly was, I read that he later regretted not retiring earlier, inflicting lasting harm on his body.
Wasn't aware of him being the 'inspiration' for that red card rule. His career being cut short is really one of the great losses in football.
Players who make 50+ consecutive appearances are almost always playing through niggles and pain.
Footballers get a bad rep for being wimps but they're mostly not.
Footballers get a bad rep for being wimps but they're mostly not.
Grealish gets kicked a lot but it never seems to force him off
Hazard was the same. Pretty durable player for us, I don't remember him being subbed off through injury often at all.
Those type of players know the kicks are coming but still make the runs.
Azpi and even more so frank had good consecutive game runs.
Close thread.
Kevin Moran. He was a real warrior CB for us in the 1980's. Used to take some heavy blows to the face, but rarely came off injured.
Kimpembe
I know it's a simple mistake but you're the third person online who thought this game was in 2010 - it was in 2014. Guess we've all lost sense of time during the pandemic!
But yes, massive performance. I'd love to watch this game back purely for Schweinsteiger's performance.
Obviously Benzema. Playing next to Vinicius is pain inducing
Yeah people underestimate how painful playing football is.
Not sure you can be classed as having a high pain threshold if your drugged to the eyeballs. Loads of people play through pain with a little injection. Just some are stupid enough to do it when they are at risk of serious injury.