"I have learned from experience not to put a date on my return, but I'm hoping to be back playing in the first team some time around Christmas, so I obviously I hope to be in full training well before then,"
"I'm just taking it one day at a time. One day it might be a bit sore, but the next day I feel great again, so you just have to take it as you go really."
"It'll mean everything to me to wear that red shirt again," he said.
"That's all that matters to me. And I have seen myself playing again on many nights... but then I wake up."