Footballer texts wrong number when asking physio for help and things get weird

From rotten fish left in Mario Balotelli’s £150,000 Maserati to anything Gazza ever did ever, footballers love a practical joke.

So spare a thought for young player Tom Preston at Northern Premier League side Lancaster City.

With his ankle hurting he did what any aspiring footballer should do… contact the physio for a little advice so he would be fit for Saturday.

But things took a turn when poor Tom managed to get the wrong number – and started texting Lancaster midfielder Rob Wilson instead.

Football League veteran Craig Stanley, who has probably seen it all with a long career at Morecambe, Bristol Rovers and Lincoln, takes up the story on twitter – as Tom ‘gets the best rehab advice ever.’

Now at the ‘Dolly Blues’ – Lancaster’s quite honestly brilliant nickname – Craig only put up the tweets a few hours ago, but they’ve already been shared… a lot.

Craig wrote: "One of the young lads texted who he thought was the Physio about his bad ankle/foot. Unfortunately for him it was RobWils8 who gave him the best rehab advice ever!"

Underneath are copies of the WhatsApp conversations between Tom and the ‘physio’.

Tom wrote: "Hi Neil (the physio’s actual name) inside of right foot got a knock last night, it’s swollen and bruised, Mark told me to tell you."

The ‘physio’ (aka Rob) replied: "Evening Tom. Thanks for letting me know. Can you put weight on it?"

Note the credible question, drawing poor Tom in.

Tom said: "Yes but bit sore".

Physio Rob added: "Okay mate. If you can put a sirloin steak on it for 10 minites. This will reduce the swelling and bruising.’

Soon after he added "How’s the swelling now?"

Tom got the gist and put peas on the injury to take it down. But, Rob, is an, erm, expert and insisted his used a Sirloin. I mean, it’s a well-known physio trick of the trade…. isn’t it???

Rob insists he goes to buy a steak, even cleverly saying the club would pay for it.

Poor Tom gets his dad to go get one – and a ‘big fat juicy one’ at that.

He then sends a picture of himself with the steak on his ankle, just to prove to Lancaster boss Mark Fell he was doing all he can…

As you can imagine than led to howls from the football fraternity.

Daniel Butler tweeted: "Staners, that’s right up there with the best mate".

Another said "that is gold" while others just went "hahahha".

But the last word should go to Droyslden Juniors, who wrote: "I hope he ate it afterwards. The steak i mean, not the foot."

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