Paul Down: Recovering after major knee surgery

Paul Down, Woking CC

I had my first knee operation for a cartilage tear back in 2010," 42-year-old Paul Down says. "The consultant said 20 years of football had left my knees in pretty bad shape.

"The weird thing was I first noticed a problem when I was fitting a kitchen at home. I got off a little stepladder, walked up stairs, and by the time I came back downstairs again my knee was three times the size it should have been. The swelling never went down and I ended up in more and more excruciating pain.

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