COVENTRY City midfielder Josh Eccles has revealed he has an extra bone in his left leg following a freak injury last season.
Eccles sustained a bizarre dead leg injury in the second leg of Coventry’s Championship play-off semi-final against Sunderland at the end of the 2024/25 campaign.
The injury forced him off in the game and saw him miss the entirety of pre-season.
Eccles made his return to the pitch for the Sky Blues against Leicester last weekend.
And the 25-year-old has revealed he now has an extra bone in his left leg due to the freak nature of the injury.
Eccles said: “The injury in the play-off game, no-one expected it to be such a long injury. I had to miss pre-season which set me back a little bit.
“It was such a bizarre injury. I managed to get a dead leg twice in the same place within five minutes of each other against Sunderland in the play-offs.
“I got forced off. A dead leg takes two weeks maximum to recover from. I got to the third week and the pain was getting worse.
“I messaged the physio staff, we had a scan and there was so much blood around the bone that the body’s natural instinct is to start healing.
“It was so close to the bone, the body thought it was bone that needed repairing so all the blood around the bone turned into bone.
“Technically in my left leg there’s an extra bone that’s been growing over the past two months. There’s no effects from it, once it’s healed it’s healed and feels fine.”
Eccles featured for 14 minutes from the bench in a goalless draw at the King Power Stadium and picked up a yellow card during his short stint on the pitch.
However, the midfielder insists his game has not changed despite the nature of his recent injury.
Eccles added: “To get some minutes against Leicester was such a nice feeling.
“With injuries, when the pain isn’t going away, you think is this going to be for the rest of my career.
“But the more you train, the more you forget about it. The pain has gone now so it feels like I’m back to normal.
“I’m aggressive in my game, I thought this injury could stop me but playing against Leicester I still had that aggressiveness.”
Coventry host Birmingham City on Saturday, September 27 with kick-off at 12.30pm at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
