David Busst
For those who like football, they may have seen the Ex-Villa player snap his leg, end his career and make Schmichael chunder know what this is like.

I play on the wing; I'm quick and good player. One afternoon, I'm being marked by a 4"9' fullback whose 1st line is "try and go past me and I'll snap you in half".

1st couple of tackles from him are knee/shin height, and then he catches me on the Achillies which bloody hurt. He careingly whispers "I'll crush your ankle next time...".

I get a ball down the wing, and I'm off and flying and he comes across from a central position to try and tackle me or take me out of the game. He comes across at full pelt, starts to slide in left foot 1st towards me.

I knock it past him, leap over the tackle and think I'm away. I hear a scream that curdled my stomach, and stop dead.

His left lower leg must have caught in the truf, and has snapped about halfway down. The two parts of bone are through the skin, looking like 2 big chop sticks. His upper leg, is also at a strange angle, but nothing has come through the leg. It's a mess, to say the least.

I was a First Aid-er, so I went over and looked. Then threw up. Twice. Over him. I managed to get over this; I covered him up, phoned 999 and he went off in the air ambulance.

The last thing he said as he got on the stretcher was "If I'd have caught you, I'd have done this to you...you lucky twunt"
(gjb006, Sun 24 Jun 2007, 17:32, Reply)