BARNABY ROSTANT looks back at the career of the often injury-plagued centre-back Jonathan Woodgate…

JONATHAN Woodgate had a successful and eventful career -when not in the treatment room. Who knows what he could have done if injuries hadn’t hit him so hard, but he still achieved more than most.

He started playing football at two local teams in Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, where he grew up. First, at Nunthorpe Athletic and he then moved onto Marton.
At Marton he got scouted by Boro. He joined the academy in 1993, aged 13, and worked his way up through the youth system un...