Reading the reports of Calum's horrendous stabbing over the weekend, it's impossible not to feel shocked at what's happened. To potentially lose a career through injury is one thing, to have it taken away so bloodily would be unjust and undeserved.
I first saw Calum play in the FA Youth Cup Final, at Upton Park in 1999, where the Hammers team including Joe Cole, who was so much better than everyone else on the pitch, and Michael Carrick, who I hadn't realised was playing until I checked back, thumped Davenport and Kirkland 9-0 on aggregate, 6-0 on the night. It was more one-sided than it sounded as well.
After relegation in 2001, he played at the back and was mostly pretty good, prone to the occasional lapse (a la Oh Lord), but overall a strong presence in a fairly good side. Sold to keep the cash registers ticking over, he's had a nomadic career, never quite good enough to hold a Premiership place, never poor enough to be sold on to a Championship side.
Our thoughts are with you, fingers crossed the surgeons can work their magic and save that career, no-one deserves to be invalided out of the game in this fashion.
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