One of the enduring mysteries of the game is why zillionaire footballers do not employ their own doctors and specialists to give them straight medical advice. Sure, the Hippocratic oath is a wonderful thing and medical ethics have been thoroughly explored, but the harsh reality of the matter is that doctors are human and that medicine is filled with grey areas and personal judgments — the kind of judgments that can be clouded by whoever is paying the bill.
To avoid any potential conflict of interest, logic would dictate that superstar footballers pay for truly independent medical opinion.
Instead, maybe because so many of them are as penny-wise as they are pound-foolish, they rely on doctors supplied by their employers. And when, as is the