Wilshere’s horror past and how he almost quit the game

Jack Wilshere has shockingly revealed the nightmare he went through that almost made him quit football.

He said, “One injury always plays in my head. It was in 2016, maybe 2015, and I picked it up in training.

“It was tough to take because I was making my way back to where I wanted to be and all of a sudden my four-year-old son was having seizures on the floor.

“It happened every day for maybe three or four months and there were times when in the middle of the night I’d be rushing to hospital.

“Me and my wife would sit up most nights because most of the seizures were happening at night.

“I just forgot about football. I remember saying to my wife, ‘I’m not sure I can do this any more’.

It makes you realise that football is not everything.

“A few people knew. That’s why I speak so highly of Arsene Wenger, because he was brilliant. He said to me, ‘Listen, you deal with your son, you take however long it takes’.

“This is why this injury took so long. People don’t realise that.

“…I’m a footballer and it’s great but family comes first, always. Thankfully now my son is good.”

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