Quashie seeks Blues relief

Scotland international happy to be playing after injury

Last updated: 15th October 2008

Quashie seeks Blues relief

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Birmingham City loan target Nigel Quashie hopes a move to St Andrew's will revive a career he feared was going to be ended by injury.

Quashie has not played a senior game since March, 2007 when the West Ham midfielder damaged an ankle so badly it threatened to put him out of the game.

"I kicked the bottom of Pascal Chimbonda's studs and near enough dismantled the joint,'' he said.

"When I tried to come back the bone kept flaking away and two holes were formed in the cartilage. I thought that would be the end because I had three operations on it.

"I went to Holland to see a specialist, a last resort type of thing, to get a final verdict whether I was going to play again."

The Scotland international has since battled back to fitness and dealt with the recent death of his mother to close in on a move to Birmingham, where he has been training and playing for the reserves.

Relief

"If I get an opportunity to come here to Birmingham it will be one of the biggest sighs of relief really, to be part of a club - whether it's for one month, two months, three months - and help push at getting back to the top flight," Quashie told the Birmingham Mail.

"The players here are really good. For me it's been a matter of getting 90 minutes under my belt, and I've had three 90 minutes now.

"It's hard at reserve team level because there's no-one watching and you've just got to push yourself through things. I'm just lucky that after a year-and-a-bit I'm back playing."