Leeds United's Adam Forshaw on hamstring issue, why he's 'floating' and Andrea Radrizzani Tweet

Last week the Leeds United midfielder finally told the full story of his injury hell, giving a football world that moved on without him all the painful details of the surgeries, setbacks and sadness that befell him.

The 30-year-old missed two years of his career, so jokes that he’s still only 28. It’s easy to joke now, because he’s no longer sitting out, having finally returned to a day job he now appreciates so much more.

Although three months have passed since he set foot on a Premier League pitch and began to put his injury misery behind him, he didn’t fully open up about it publicly until last week.

“I’ve been planning on doing it for a long time but it was just about the time being right,” he told the YEP.

“I wanted to focus on playing and getting into a bit of rhythm and even though I got the hamstring nick, it felt like it was a good time to give closure to it and move on.

“I think people are surprised at the amount of surgeries I had.

“It got to a point where it was so long winded, bad news after bad news.

“It wasn’t being documented in the press, which I wasn’t too bothered about because I just wanted to get back fit. It was quite nice to tell all, it felt like closure a little bit.”

As he speaks, Forshaw is not actually fully fit, thanks to a hamstring issue sustained at West Ham, though when you’ve endured agony that felt never-ending, a niggle is but a minor inconvenience.

“I felt something, but not something really sharp that makes you pull up and I carried on for a couple of minutes but it was just gradually getting worse.

“I sat down and I said to the physio Henry [McStay] I’d give it another try, but he said it’s one of them, if you carry on it’ll get a lot worse, so I have to thank him, it was the right decision because it looks like I’ll only miss one game.

“I went outside for the first time on Tuesday and I’m likely to be training with the team [this] week so it’ll give me a good seven days at least in the lead up to Villa.”

One game is nothing really, in the grand scheme of things. Forshaw sat and watched as his team-mates romped to Premier League promotion and then took the top flight by storm, clinching a top 10 place.

“There were times when I worried that I’d play again, full stop,” he told the YEP.

“But once I was pain free and back training, pre-season time, I knew it would be a matter of time before I got back to the level.

"It wasn’t the case of training for training’s sake thinking what’s going to happen with me, once I knew my body was fine.

"Throughout the two years, there were times, even a year ago, when I wondered if I’d ever play at the level again.

“I knew personally I had a lot to go to get back to the physicality and the level and I like to think I’ve shown I’m back now.