Michail Antonio’s fortunes appear have mirrored West Ham’s – from the highs of trophy winners just a couple of years ago to the despair of  being the football equivalent of a virtual basket cases today shows the speed with which the twists and turns of life can be almost overwhelming.

For Antonio, post Ferrari crash, it seems the toughest part has not even been the rehabilitation. Pushing himself probably like never before, West Ham’s record goal scorer incredibly made it back onto the pitch six months after the crash that almost took his life and left him with a steel rod fixing his broken thigh bone.

As revealed in a frank bbc.co.uk article, he reveals that the ‘mending’ and getting fit again was only half the battle.

“The hardest part wasn’t the recovery. It was the knockbacks for me…

When I found out I’d torn my calf the day before signing for Brentford, I laid in bed for two days.

“First day, I was just crying. The second day, I just didn’t want to get out of bed. I thought ‘I’m back where I want to be, I’m back in the Premier League’. And then...