Glen Little is hoping to kick-start his Portsmouth career after a nightmare beginning to life at Fratton Park.
New Pompey winger aims to put nightmare start behind him
Glen Little is hoping to kick-start his Portsmouth career after a nightmare beginning to life at Fratton Park.
The 33-year-old made a surprise return to the Premier League this summer after being relegated with Reading.
But the winger is yet to make his Pompey debut, with a string of injuries wreaking havoc with his pre-season preparations.
"The frustrating thing is you are playing a pre-season friendly against Bournemouth, you get a bit of a reckless challenge and get a dead leg," he told The News.
"Suddenly from getting maybe five or six games under your belt in pre-season you are stopping and starting, you are missing four or five days.
Injury woe
"Then I played against Manchester United in Nigeria and I'm thinking 'let's get it going again' - and you are out again for another three or four days with a thigh problem.
"After that I felt okay against Havant & Waterlooville but the injury was just niggling me still and I felt I couldn't keep going.
"We had a scan and there was a bit of fluid and bruising in there and the frustrating thing was the day after I missed the Community Shield, I was running fine and could not feel a thing.
"Then there was Chelsea - the first game of the season. Maybe if it was the end of the season you would have said 'well let's give it a go'.
"But being the start of the season we didn't want to force it. If I had broke down and it wasn't right you are putting yourself back another couple of weeks mucking about.
Frustration
"It's kept on happening, which is so frustrating, but thankfully that's all over now and I'm looking forward to getting out there and playing games."
Little was ruled out of the 3-0 win at Everton after colliding with Papa Bouba Diop in training and suffering another dead leg.
The former Burnley man is set to return to training this week and could be in contention for Saturday's home game against Middlesbrough.
"All you can do is work hard off the pitch and make sure that if you get your chance, you are as fit as you can be and play as well as you can do," he added.
