Well my third season as part of the Notts County Sports Medicine team is well under way. Alas the change in manager towards the end of last season didn’t bring about the hoped for change in fortunes on the pitch culminating in relegation from league 1. Despite the lack of success on the pitch it was a great season for the Sports Med Team which continues to go from strength to strength. Several members of last season’s team have now moved on to bigger and better things with new clubs. Shannon Smalling started the ball rolling by moving to Aston Villa to take over as Academy Physio and Hannah Jowitt followed shortly after when she landed her dream job as England Crickets Sports Scientist. More
I’m not aware of any standard pathway from leaving school to becoming an osteopath, but if there is one, I’m fairly confident that the route I took doesn’t even come close! When I left school in the late 70’s, like many of my friends, I went to work underground at Calverton Colliery. I started as an apprentice Electrician and left 15 years later as Assistant Electrical Engineer. This was around the time of the first home computers and before long I had converted from Electrical Engineer to Software Engineer, which is really weird as I hated computers back then and I still don’t like them today! My dad and step dad were both in the forces, one a Marine, the other a Para. This, alongside my ex
