>>150042472I hate to break it to you, but everyone has a "degenerative knee condition" - it's called aging. Apparently there is no cure, it just gets worse. If your life revolves around you playing football, you should take as good care of your knees as possible.
Football itself is bad for the knees, logically the more weight the worse. You don't have to be Amerifat-fat to get accumulating damage, it's ever little thud is a tiny bit more wear and tear. And yes, there are plenty of other players also who are out of shape and damaging their most prized asset due to being fat fucks (for a footballer). And if you ever watch some of the lower leagues - the lower the league, the fatter the players become on average, which should tell you something.
If you tell the referee that you have a splitting headache so can't play very well he's not going to say "understandable, have a penalty kick due to your headache". At the end of the day football is about reality, and like I suggested in my earlier post here should have it who had the best couple of years at peak if you want to go down that route.