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Jordan Nobbs: England vice-captain on the moment she knew her World Cup dream was over

February 23, 2019

By Jo Currie BBC Sport 11 Feb From the section Women’s Football Share this with Digg Facebook Google LinkedIn Reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Copy this link https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47192941 Read more about sharing. “My first words to Sam the physio were ‘I’m going to miss the World Cup’. I knew I’d done my knee and that was it really.”Jordan Nobbs, the England and Arsenal midfielder, is coming to terms with the fact that she will miss the Women’s World Cup in France in June and July.The 26-year-old ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament during Arsenal’s 4-0 win over Everton in November.Nobbs, a player described by Lionesses boss Phil Neville as an “invaluable”, was ruled out of the World Cup the following month. “That was one of the hardest parts,” says Nobbs. “I had the carrot dangled in front of me to say: ‘You’ve got six months. It is possible to come back.’”Hearing the surgeon say ‘this is a nine-month injury, you’re putting yourself at such a high risk coming into a major tournament of doing it again, re-rupturing and being out for maybe two years’… it’s the hardest decision to ever make.”Nobbs, capped 56 times by England, remembers the moment she suffered the injury.”I…

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