José Enrique: ‘I couldn’t do anything, couldn’t move, had to sleep at an angle’

The former Liverpool defender on surviving cancer, sitting with the fans and his excitement at soon playing in the club shirt again

José Enrique did not cry after the eight-hour operation in which surgeons removed a tumour from his brain or during the two months of radiotherapy, head strapped down, face in a mask. He did not cry in intensive care either, as he lay in hospital with a tube up his nose or through the endless headaches. The day he heard his cancer had gone, he did not shed a tear and he has not since: not in sessions with his psychiatrist or those moments when he cannot take his mind off it, struggling to assimilate everything that has happened over the last year and is still happening now.

It’s not that he does not want to; it’s that he is not able to.

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from Football | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2EAp6Rg