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Lewis Putman just knew the time had come to hang up his scoring boots after suffering a FOURTH serious knee injury.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
29 January 2023

Goal ace suffers FOURTH knee injury
By Jon Couch

GOAL-GETTER Lewis Putman just knew the time had come to hang up his scoring boots after suffering a FOURTH serious knee injury.
The 31-year-old decided to call time on his colourful Non-League playing career this week after sustaining a suspected ACL and medial ligament damage playing for Southall against Uxbridge last Saturday.
“It’s one big injury too many for me,” Putman told The NLP. “As soon as it happened I knew that was it. I couldn’t go on through all that rehab again.”
Putman first came to prominence with Step 5 side Oxhey Jets wh...

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