It has been reported today that Freddie Ljunberg is apparently in "severe pain" suffering from migraines. He missed the game with Auxerre at the last moment due to "an illness" as defined by an official report. Hopefully this will not affect him, personally and professionally for too long.
Somebody needs to get him in touch with Terrell Davis. For those who don't know, he is a great Denver Broncos running back who suffered migranes all of his life but just fought through it. In the second quarter of the biggest game of his life, his first super bowl against Green Bay, he got a severe migrane. He couldn't see and was puking, but he was such an important part of the offense that the coach put him in anyway. He took some medicine and pretty much got it under control to come back and finish the game. After that, he got braces on his teeth and took his medication regularly, and never had a problem again.
Here is a link to Freddie's column in "The Telegraph" http://sport.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=D&xml=/sport/2002/10/05/sfnlju05.xml He says he has to avoid red wine and cheese to keep these headaches at bay. Dear Lord, with the French contingent at Highbury, that must be damn near impossible!
It was nice of Freddie to kiss a little rival butt by giving props to Owen and RVN...a little sucking up never hurts.
"Maybe he was using red wine to add the streak into his hair, and it's soaked through into his head!" (LOL). (Sorry Freddie!!).
Braces? Must have been some darn magic metal, mine didn't do anything but straighten my pearly whites.
I'm not a doctor nor am I an orthodontist, so I can't give you details but I'm pretty sure there was something about his teeth that was causing him to have these migranes.