Siem de Jong given chance to turn page on chequered injury history at Sydney FC | Louise Taylor

The gifted Dutchman's body has at times been unable to keep up with his exceptional football brain Steve McClaren was attending a funeral and his phone had remained switched off for some time. When Newcastle United's then manager turned the device back on, a string of increasingly desperate messages urged him to get in touch. He called back. "There's been a freak accident at the training ground, it looks bad," reported the voice on the other end of the line." McClaren wondered "who?" before quic...