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Jonny May has opened up about his ordeal Down Under, on an England tour ruined by Covid. Summing it up, he said: ‘Really, my trip was two training sessions and a lot of mental torment.’
After missing a large chunk of last season with a knee injury, the 32-year-old Gloucester wing had recovered in time to be selected by Eddie Jones for the three-Test series against Australia. But he didn’t play and spent much of the time on his own. His account of the episode is a reminder of how the global pandemic continues to have a disruptive impact.
England arrived in Perth in late June and May struggled with jetlag on the first night. Then it went from bad to worse. ‘I travelled out and caught Covid,’ he said. ‘I went down to the physio room in the morning with the agenda of saying, “Doc, I can’t train today, I am knackered”. The doc said, “I’ll Covid test you”. So I took my lateral flow, went back to my room and had seven days in isolation.
Jonny May missed out on England’s tour of Australia after contracting COVID
‘I was pretty sick. I started getting a bit hot. My jet lag protocol went out the window. I fell asleep at 6pm and didn’t wake up till 2.30pm the next day, with the doc banging my door down because he thought I might be dying.
‘I lost 6kg and was pretty ill. The thing that was really weird was the knee I had just come back from swelled up like a balloon, got really red and hot. I couldn’t see anyone so I was texting the physios from my room, saying, “My knee’s a bit sore and they were like, “Yeah, yeah, it’ll be fine, it is stiff from the flight”. But whatever day I got out, they said, “Let’s just go for a little run”. I could barely run, my knee was that sore.’
May’s stint in quarantine involved a tricky relocation process, as England moved from an initial base outside Perth, into the city. He had to be transferred carefully.
‘It was all a bit of a blur,’ he said. ‘I got put in some van with this…
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