The Swedish centre-back is about to develop his comeback and taste Premier League action for the first time nearly a year after suffering a knee injury that could have wrecked his careerEven for a typically gentle-mannered Swede,Joel Ekstrand seems affronted by the question. “He can’t do that against me, insists the towering central defender. “We’ve been in training camps with each other many times so I’ve known that slip for a long time.”Ekstrand may not be fooled by team-mate Odion Ighalo’s “scoop” – a trick that now even has its own Twitter account featuring a cartoon of the Nigerian striker serving ice creams to a series of bewildered Premier League defenders including Newcastle’s Fabricio Coloccini and Mamadou Sakho of Liverpool – but then the former Helsingborg and Udinese player is clearly no mug.
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Source: theguardian.com