Tranmere Physio Les Parry almost did himself an injury by clocking up 780 matches…wearing just a T-shirt and shorts.

Parry, 48, admits that he has no idea why he dressed in summer-weight pre-season kit at games on bitterly cold winter nights.

But Parry insists that he will continue to reveal the body that inspired his Christmas 2006 single I'm Les The White Legs Parry.

He said: "At some point back in the dark days we had a couple of cold nights and I just happened to wear a T-shirt and shorts, probably without realising how cold it was going to be.

"But from then on it just grew to be expected and I decided to keep with it!

"I've had nights when I've been sitting on the bench and my knees have frozen. If I'd had to run on it would have been I wouldn't have been able to straighten up.

"I've lost some weight now. There's no doubt that being fat helped. I haven't got as much to keep me warm now so I have to put something more on."

He may still be seen wearing precious little, but Parry manages to keep warm by attempting to out-sprint the other physios if players from both sides are injured at the same time.

He added: "You put your head down and go. I will do a fancy finish if it's close.

"I always used to win. But now I'm getting a bit older I'm losing more and more.

"I had to jump on someone's back last season just to slow them down a bit!"

Even though Parry's main job is to get players fit, he is not fussed about their feelings when it comes to writing his programme notes.

His column used to be called Les Parry's Slaughterhouse - and he would lay into players without mercy.

He now writes Rough Treatment, which is much milder. He said: "You read some match-day programmes and they talk about players doing rehabilitation, or doing muscle work to help build up their quads.

"People don't want to read stuff like that. And I don't know any of the big words to do it properly!"

As well as having pages dedicated to him on social networking sites, Parry was even persuaded to release a record to raise money for charity two years ago.

He said: "It was the worst single ever released.

"It was Rudolph The Red-Nose Reindeer with the words changed to I'm Les The White Legs Parry - and the lads did the chorus.

"It only sold the 2,000 copies that were made so it didn't get near the charts. But I bet copies could go for a couple of grand on Ebay now!"

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