It was confirmed today that ATAFC’s Phil Barber has fractured a bone in his big toe. The injury had occured over two months ago. Periods of recovery had occured but without sufficient rest the bone has simply re-fractured everytime Barber is involved in a challenge. Without letting this injury recover, Barber could face permanent Arthritis in his toe.

Barber revealed the diagnosis to limited press and news reaches this blog with ‘hits’ falling from 30,000 per day to just 4 (Barber admitted he may check the blog around 4 times a day). Recovery time is said to be 8 weeks but residual pain in the foot could last longer.

Barber is said to be dissapointed by the news and will miss Wednesday Night Artist Football greatly. He hopes to return to the fixtures but must let the problematic bone heal properly so as not to risk constant recurrence of the injury.