entering administration.<\/a><\/p>\nAfter Derby, Wisdom had trials at several clubs. The then 28-year-old was desperate to get his career back on track.<\/p>\n
“I drove from my home near Liverpool to play one game for Portsmouth, but I didn’t hear anything back. I just wanted to play football.”<\/p>\n
Despite his best efforts to put the events of 2020 behind him, Wisdom – who made a total of 48 Premier League appearance for Liverpool, West Bromwich Albion (loan) and Norwich City (loan) – knew his career as a professional player in England was pretty much over.<\/p>\n
“Doctors say I have severe nerve damage down my left side as a result of what happened. I was stabbed in my head and today I still get headaches. It seems like a piece of me is gone. I get dull aches, it’s borderline pain.”<\/p>\n
The emotional impact has also taken its toll.<\/p>\n
“There were some days [during recovery] when I just stayed in my room all day, other days when I was a bit more: ‘Hello, how is everyone doing?’<\/p>\n
“When I go through something in life, whatever it is, I try to go through it on my own and deal with things.<\/p>\n
“Even though I knew I had support, I didn’t look for it because essentially it’s my life, my body and my experience.”<\/p>\n
Wisdom, whose career also includes one season on loan in Austria with Red Bull Salzburg, says he has changed as a person.<\/p>\n
“I like to move on from stuff, but what happened has made me more vigilant, made me more aware of my surroundings.” <\/p>\n
Yet despite everything he has been through, he refuses to dwell on his life-changing experience five years ago. <\/p>\n
“I was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” says Wisdom. “It happens everywhere. <\/p>\n
“Thank God I’m good and that I made it through.”<\/p>\n
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