Rugby player with broken bone gets leg up from Jersey Milk

Saturday 04 February 2017

An England rugby player is ready for today’s Six Nations opener against France following a broken limb – thanks to a little leg up from Jersey Milk.

Joe Marler – named in England’s starting line-up on Thursday – had his participation in the Six Nation’s starting match thrown into question, after discovering that he had broken his lower left leg.

Worse than this, he had been playing on it for up to a week before it was diagnosed.

The 26-year-old had apparently fractured it during the first half of Harlequins’ losing game against Worcester.

“I got to the end of the game and ‘strap it up it’s just a tight calf or whatever’, and then because of the frozen pitches and the weather, we didn’t really get a chance to run it again until the following week’s warm-up which I said to them ‘I’ll be alright, I’ll just run it off’ but I couldn’t run it off because my leg was broken,” he said.

But it was thanks to drinking “two pints of milk a day” that ensured his speedy recovery in under a month.

While he mostly guzzled “blue top”, Jersey “gold top” – thick with extra cream – provided a special treat on occasions.

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“I always thought green top was good for you because it’s reduced fat, but [head coach Eddie Jones] gave me licence to have blue top and the odd day I’d have that gold top stuff, the one with like 1,000 calories…

“Your mum or whoever says milk is really good for you and you don’t really believe it until you really need it because you’ve got a broken leg, apparently, so I just drank loads of that.”

Eamon Fenlon, Managing Director of Jersey Dairy, told Express: “Several studies have shown that milk can be beneficial for sports recovery and many have shown the positive benefits of whole milk. All milk from the Jersey Cow breed has a higher content of protein, calcium and vitamins than milk from black and white cows, so it is understandable that Joe was recommended to drink Jersey milk.”

Having had success with his calcium-filled drinking habit, Mr Marler said: “I think it’s something I’ll keep doing because it’s really tasty.”