Fly boy takes it easy

Rugby - England's heroic fly-half Jonty Sparrow will be fresh and firing on all cylinders for England next week. He is being allowed to miss Sunday's club clash at Bristol after England Rugby overlord, Bob Andy, begged Newcastle to give Sparrow a breather. "I had Andy on the phone for an hour," said Falcons Chief Jim Average. "He was in tears, begging literally begging me to rest Sparrow. I won't tell you what he offered in exchange for my co-operation but it made the hairs on my neck stand on end. Anyway, I told him to calm down and that I was going to rest him anyway because we've got someone else who's even better and doesn't get injured all the time and then when we do finally get him fit, he goes poncing off to play for England every fifteen minutes. And no, he's not English."

isporty wants to know what's the worst injury jinx you've ever had and what you did to overcome it. How did you cope with the inactivity, were you tempted to give up and take up cross-stitching instead?