Paralysed Nesu making slow recovery

Former FC Utrecht full-back Mihai Nesu says his painstaking recovery from near-total paralysis feels like he is carrying “the weight of three tractors”.

The Romanian fractured a vertebra in his neck in a training-ground collision with team-mate Alje Schut in May, and the resulting injury to his spinal cord left him able to move only his head and, eventually, his right arm.