Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell has opened up on the health episode that turned his off-season trip on its head.
Mitchell was hospitalised in New York over Christmas last year with pneumonia, spending seven days in a New York hospital bed.
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While the Hawks coach has now fully recovered and is working full-time again, the 41-year-old told the Herald Sun of the nightmare that unfolded in New York.
“I was no good,” Mitchell recounted of what he initially thought was a cold that had worsened a few days into the trip.
“I was sitting with Lyndall and the three kids (at breakfast) and I said to Lyndall ‘I am not going to make it today, I am going to go back up to the room’.
“She was like ‘What do you mean you ...
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