I’m not in the wishing injury camp or anything, but I do agree, and this is generally speaking, not even Lingard related, that is is extremely precious and fecking dramatic to be coming out with all that ‘disgusting’ and ‘wishing harm’ stuff about the comment made above.
As mentioned, injuries are a regular part of the game, and I never see anyone show human compassion for Phil Jones when he is injured yet again, it is either greeted with irritation/anger simply due to his latest unavailability for the team (as opposed to concern that the ‘poor man is hurt’) or a joke is simply made of it. A man wanting/not caring Jesse to get a strained calf or something is hardly disgusting. Nor is it ‘disgusting’ in a regular day job to think to yourself ‘I hope Dave has a cold tomorrow and can’t come in’ if you were both due to give a big presentation for the same promotion or something.