‘I felt drained and knew I couldn’t do it. It was horrible’

When a footballer is feeling poorly he tends to be sick as a parrot.

Not any more, perhaps. Because it seems there’s an even worse condition for a footballer to be in — he could be as sick as a McShane.

The last time we saw Paul McShane, it was just a brief glimpse of the Hull defender warming-up on the Craven Cottage pitch before a vomiting bug forced him out of last month’s friendly against Oman.