WATCH: Jonathan Woodgate's weird injury cure
Sunday 14 August 2016 18:14, UK
Jonathan Woodgate recounted a hilarious story on Goals on Sunday of a time a doctor at Real Madrid attempted to use grass to cure his injury problems.
The former defender had presenters Ben Shephard and Chris Kamara in stitches on Sunday morning as he discussed the lengths he went to to get fit during his time at the Bernabeu.
"Signing there injured was a nightmare," he said. "All you want to do is go out on the pitch, impress them and try and make the team better and I couldn't. I was rushing my injury I think I did it twice when I was there and finally I had an operation on it.
"I was trying everything. There was a time when this doctor came over and started getting all this grass and putting it on my leg. He looked like Captain Birdseye, and I'm looking at him and thinking to myself, 'what am I doing?'
"We were in the physio's house at the time and he started boiling this pan and putting grass in it and I was thinking: 'Is that for me? What are we going to do with this grass?'
"You'll do anything and try anything [to get fit]. I had botox in my thigh to try and stop one of the muscles from firing. Weird."
Hit play on the video at the top to see Jonathan Woodgate's story on Goals on Sunday
