You seem to miss the point. He isn't crippled by his injury, just can't play professional football, as you need to be in peak physical condition and very fit. He can lead a perfectly normal life, the £12.5m he was paid during his time at Palace helps.
He has been extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to earn that sort of money. I would prefer to feel sympathy for our soldiers, who have lost limbs in combat, they would rather continue being a soldier. Instead they are left to struggle through life, without the riches that Wickham has.

The fact that others have it worse in life doesn't disqualify Wickham from sympathy, surely?

The impact on a person of having every boys dream given to them by one hand and taken away by the other seems notably cruel to me. Correctly or otherwise, Wickham was touted as an England centre forward when he was a teenager, and for the rest of his days he'll wonder what he could have achieved if not for circumstances entirely beyond his control. Perhaps most of us would happily swap with him, but none of his peers would in a million years.

No, because you won't miss what you knew from early on you were never going to have.

Wickham is a different story.

I'm certainly not promoting an outpouring of anything, but personally I feel a little bit sorry for the bloke.

Poor you. Will buy you a pint sometime - you can cry into that.

Red and Blue Army!

Tony Book didn't play league football until he was 29. Signed for Man City at 31 and played for them for nearly a decade.

The latest from PNE is the hamstring injury may be so bad they are considering removing Wickham from their 25-man squad.
He will be seeing a specialist and they fear he may well be out until 2022.
Wickham probably knows more about medicine than the doctors by now.
Should probably consider it as a career.