I was at football training about twelve years ago (I distinctly remember wearing the Kappa training top) and we were just doing the last shuttle runs and I put my leg on the pitch to slide and stop myself. I felt a scratch and looked down to my lower right leg to see a gaping wound about 12 inches long and a good three inches deep.
I was more concerned about putting my mates into shock from seeing it to be honest because the pain was almost non-existent, which was weird, and there was not that much blood. It turned out there was a tiny piece of glass on the pitch which had the effect on my leg as a wood saw does on a log.
The lack of pain situation all changed when they got me in A and E and had to start examaning the wound and clean it out. I was on both morphine and gas and air and it was still the most pain I have ever felt. The nurse resorted to spraying the morphine directly into the wound as she could see the distress I was in.
I wouldn't wish that on anyone but Gary Neville. Great scar though.
-- Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:21 pm --
Chris Mac said:
Broke my ankle and dislocated it at the same time some years ago. I was in an innaccesible place too, full of snow and about half a mile from the vehicle we'd travelled in had to litterally crawl to the car, absolute and utter fookin agony!
Broken both collar bones too, broken jaw, fractured cheekbone and eye socket and broken every finger but none hurt as much as that.
It's Roque isn't it? Roque Santa Cruz everyone!!