Fabinho Reportedly Avoids Severe Hamstring Injury

The Brazilian may miss only a few weeks after injuring his
hamstring against FC Midtjylland.

With Liverpool currently in the midst of a center-back
crisis, seeing Fabinho, who has been filling in admirably at
center-back since Virgil van Dijk’s ACL tear, pull up with a
non-contact hamstring injury in the first half against FC
Midtjylland yesterday was a terrifying sight.

Rhys Williams acquitted himself well in relief and Liverpool
maintained the clean sheet, but the overwhelming post-match
narrative was that LFC may be facing several months without
Fabinho. When a player pulls up clutching their hamstring as the
Brazilian did, they can usually be expected to miss at least a
month in a best case scenario.

Fortunately, according to a report by The Mirror, Fabinho
underwent a scan that showed he has avoided sustaining a severe
injury that could have held him out for up to six months. It sounds
like he could miss as little as just a few weeks of action, and
there is some hope he could be ready to go once Liverpool resume
play following the upcoming international break.

Unfortunately, even if Fabinho does return following the break
(which seems more hopeful than realistic to be honest), he will not
feature in Liverpool’s next three matches. Meanwhile, Joel Matip
has only just returned to light training as he recovers from a leg
injury of his own.

That means Joe Gomez will likely be paired with either
Rhys Williams or Nat Phillips, who have combined for just five
senior appearances for Liverpool, against West Ham on Saturday.
It’s difficult to imagine Matip could play 180 minutes in a six day
span even if he were to return to the lineup in the next few days.
Therefore, Williams or Phillips will almost certainly be in the
starting XI for one, if not both, of Liverpool’s meetings with
Atalanta and Manchester
City next week as well.

So, while news of Fabinho’s injury being less severe than
originally feared is certainly welcome, the next three matches are
likely to be nervy affairs. Facing Atalanta and Manchester City will be trial by fire for
Williams and/or Phillips. All we can do is hope the young defenders
are up for the test.

The legal profession has once again scooped the top prize for
the most arrogant profession for the 78^th year running,
beating even policemen and witches, According to
postamate reports^[1]

In the annual awards for the most arrogant professionals,
lawyers and their kind took all the possible awards, beating the
politicians who came a distant second. To put things into
perspective, the legal professionals were found to be six times
more arrogant than policemen and 42 times more arrogant than the
matatu (transport) industry in Kenya.

While the results were expected, it is a situation that
continues to baffle many normal people who just love minding their
own business. “How can people be so arrogant when they neither
understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics nor understand the Germ
theory of diseases?” Wondered one small scale farmer who is not
into politics and institutionalized gossip. “Doesn’t it even bother
them that someone wearing a horse wig on the head should not speak
too loudly when our grandmothers with their hand knit caps are
around?”

Unmoved by Covid-19

Not even the fact that majority of them still use Windows
XP^[2] could
help tame their arrogance.

Even with Covid-19 which led to closure of courts rendering many
lawyers irrelevant, many continued to maintain their arrogant tone
and looking down on other lesser professionals, in spite of the
fact that lawyers could barely put food in their mouth.

“They continued to speak fluent arrogance even when the law
societies were frantically trying to scramble for coins to help
them pay their rent. In Kenya, poor relatives in the village were
also sustaining them by sending them maize and beans, but the
lawyers in their impeccable suits continued to boast of their
mastery of the queen’s language on social media.”

Experts opine that this is a problem that is likely to last for
many years as it seems to be rooted in their DNA.

It is not limited to practising professionals only. Even law
students continue to regard themselves as better than all other
comrades, with reports that some of them consider themselves more
important to the learning institutions than Music Professors.

The same award awaits them next year.