Inside the Wild West of football’s private trainers: Bitter rows with clubs over freak injuries in behind the scenes sessions, the jaw-dropping tales of unqualified ‘cowboys’ who get it all wrong and why 90 per cent of stars still swear by them
The season was only a week old but Paul Heckingbottom’s patience was already wearing thin. This wasn’t about a dodgy refereeing call or the sale of a key player though – but a ‘minefield’.