Jonathan Woodgate turned to botox and 'boiled grass' as he battled injury hell

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Real Madrid.Woodgate made headlines around the world when he was snapped up by Los Blancos in a shock £13.4million transfer from Newcastle back in the summer of 2004.

But unfortunately, the English defender failed to make an impact at the Bernabeu due to a string of injury issues.The 42-year-old's career was often blighted by injuries - but he still managed to turn out for the likes of Tottenham and Middlesbrough, while Woodgate also won eight England caps.But it was after sealing his dream switch to Madrid that Woodgate was desperate to beat his fitness issues once and for all - and he's revealed the extreme lengths he went to in order to try and beat his demons during his spell with Los Blancos.Speaking on the Original Penguin X Campaign Against Living Miserably Under The Surface podcast, Woodgate revealed: "In Madrid I was doing 1,000 sit-ups a day trying to strengthen my core and my back, and was thinking to myself ‘1,000 sit ups a day.

Jheez. How was that going to get me fit?’ If anything it was going to cause me more trouble in my back, so in the end I went back to my old physio at Leeds who got me fit."I had Physio, Botox, injections.

There was one time they bought this fella over who said he could get me fit, who had written to the club saying he could get me fit.