Injury came at bad time for Halifax Town winger Allen
FOOTBALL CAN be a cruel game at times. Just ask Jamie Allen.
Town boss Pete Wild felt the winger was in his best form for the club since joining them in the summer of 2019 when he was forced off in the 1-0 win at home to Bromley on March 15 with what turned out to be a torn hamstring.
That game was Allen’s sixth consecutive league start, with the forward playing his part in helping Halifax win five of them in what he feels was his best form for the club.
“I agree. Obviously me and gaffer have been together three years now and he’d mentioned that one of the big things for me was finding some consistency,” Allen said.
“And I felt like I was finding some consistency and some form, so the injury came at a bad time.
“But it happens in football and you’ve just got to come back strong, that’s all you can do really.”
Allen feels being a regular starter in a team in form was a big reason for his purple patch.
“Being a footballer, the main thing is playing week in, week out and when you get a few games together and the team’s doing well, the morale’s high, everyone’s doing well together, that helps you do well individually,” he said.
“It wasn’t just me doing well and finding form, it was the whole team as well, which helped me massively.”
The initial diagnosis was that Allen would be ruled out for the rest of the season, but the winger says he could make a return before then.
“The time scale’s maybe about six to eight weeks, but everybody’s body heals differently, it could be longer, it could be shorter,” he said.
“I’m not going to put a time scale on it, we’re just going to focus on the rehabilitation and take however long it takes.
“I’ve started to do some exercises and we can start progressing that now in the gym.
“So the rehabilitation process has officially started now and I can crack on now and focus on that.”