Fleck and Egan

[Sean Thornton]

Clean breaks of the lower leg/ankle tend to be far less painful than serious ligament injuries. I’ve had both.

 

[benn5712]

Christ how bad is our luck at the moment? looks like Diane Abbott will be out for the rest of the season

Don't you mean Diane Abbott in for the rest of the season.

 

[Varkanoid]

Came here for Egan news and reading injury swap stories.

I've got a dodgy ankle from when I was young and few years ago had it xray'd as it was causing me issues. Doctor examined my xray and said when did you break your foot. I said I never broke my foot. Showed me the X Ray and quite clearly can see a crack in my foot about inch and half long that had healed and he said probably about 8 or 9 years ago this happened. Said this was probably causing my ankle issues as its made your foot weak at this part. Never knew I had broken it although I did wonder as my foot has a ridge at this point.

Broke my finger right hand 2nd from little finger whilst in goal saving a point blank shot and it hurt like hell, needed operation to repair it and still have to be careful now as it hurts if I catch it because part of the bone is missing. Doctor told me to stop playing in goal as if I damage it again might have to lose my finger. Yet somehow I broke or fractured my foot and didnt even know about it.

 

[Oldun]

Lovely stories about everyone’s broken bone history. The X-ray earlier in this post is a comminuted fracture or both the tibia and fibula. Egan’s foot would have been wobbling around and he would have been in considerable pain. Without any crowd in the stadium it’s likely that a break like that would have been pretty loud and easily picked up on television. He wouldn’t have left the ground on crutches as Wilder reported.

 

[ThatJa]

Lovely stories about everyone’s broken bone history. The X-ray earlier in this post is a comminuted fracture or both the tibia and fibula. Egan’s foot would have been wobbling around and he would have been in considerable pain. Without any crowd in the stadium it’s likely that a break like that would have been pretty loud and easily picked up on television. He wouldn’t have left the ground on crutches as Wilder reported.

He'd have been on oxygen on the pitch. It would have took a considerable amount of time to get him comfortable before taking him off the pitch. It was far too quick for that.

 

[Down the Channels]

Lovely stories about everyone’s broken bone history. The X-ray earlier in this post is a comminuted fracture or both the tibia and fibula. Egan’s foot would have been wobbling around and he would have been in considerable pain. Without any crowd in the stadium it’s likely that a break like that would have been pretty loud and easily picked up on television. He wouldn’t have left the ground on crutches as Wilder reported.

I agree, he would not have been allowed to put any weight on it at all.
When I did mine the crack was very loud, I was still hoping I had just sprained it though!

 

[TJB.]

Priti Patel looked at the xray and said his ankle was broken in eleventy fivety places

Yeah but she has a phat ass so all in the room accepted the diagnosis, no questions asked.

 

[Nosworthys Throw]

Is it just me that finds it a bit odd we dont know the extent of these issues yet? My pessimism is starting to kick in

 

[Oldun]

Is it just me that finds it a bit odd we dont know the extent of these issues yet? My pessimism is starting to kick in

Surely we would be more likely to have hear something if it was a serious injury requiring surgery or something?

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

I sprained my ankle when i was 5.

 

[SwitchBLADE Smiles]

Once stepped on a Lego brick in the middle of the night. Thought it was the end of my life.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Came here for Egan news and reading injury swap stories.

I've got a dodgy ankle from when I was young and few years ago had it xray'd as it was causing me issues. Doctor examined my xray and said when did you break your foot. I said I never broke my foot. Showed me the X Ray and quite clearly can see a crack in my foot about inch and half long that had healed and he said probably about 8 or 9 years ago this happened. Said this was probably causing my ankle issues as its made your foot weak at this part. Never knew I had broken it although I did wonder as my foot has a ridge at this point.

Broke my finger right hand 2nd from little finger whilst in goal saving a point blank shot and it hurt like hell, needed operation to repair it and still have to be careful now as it hurts if I catch it because part of the bone is missing. Doctor told me to stop playing in goal as if I damage it again might have to lose my finger. Yet somehow I broke or fractured my foot and didnt even know about it.

I did the same, I broke mine at 22, went to the hospital and they said it was a sprain. Went back a year later to get it checked and it was broken. I’ve had 2 operations to shave the bone and stop it grinding but it still hurts most days. Mornings are worse. It’s caused issues with my back and other leg through compensating as well.

If I ever see the nurse again who told me that it was a sprain I’d go full ‘misery’ on her and break her ankles.

 

[Nosworthys Throw]

Surely we would be more likely to have hear something if it was a serious injury requiring surgery or something?

Stop being rational you weirdo

 

[The Crab]

This is getting like the scene in Jaws where they are comparing wounds............

 

[TheFlashingBlade]

To continue this ‘Tales of Broken Bones’ megathread (with mercifully brief off-topic sidetrackings about the health of Fleck and Egan), here’s my tale...

A good few years ago I broke my leg playing football (yes Trafford, playing football). I went to A&E and, after a five hour wait, they took a quick look, told me it was a bad sprain, gave me some tubigrip, some medication and some crutches, and sent me hobbling on my way.

Two days later I went abroad for a week-long piss up (a.k.a. my best mate’s wedding), whereupon I stopped taking my pills (you couldn’t drink alcohol with them) and discarded my crutches, and embarked on a vigorous programme of cultural activities*, including whole days walking up and down the cobbled streets of old cities.

(* Mainly the ‘drinking culture’)

A month later and back at work, a colleague said to me, “listen, I used to be a ski instructor and have seen enough sprains and broken bones to know that that’s not a sprain”. Well my leg was, if I say so myself, a rather magnificent, and very impressively swollen, purple colour (not quite as magnificently purple or impressively swollen as my mate’s penis following a circumcision at the age of 30 I hasten to add, but I digress - that’s another story altogether).

So I went off to see the company doctor, and one X-ray later was the proud owner of a two-and-a-half inch fracture of the tibia.

So I walked around with a broken leg for a month, not because I’m hard (Trafford and Kenilworth will attest to the fact that I’m more John Inman than John Egan), but because it doesn’t always hurt quite as much as you imagine it does.

The moral of the story? Snapped limbs are more fun than this season.

P.S. For an encore, having missed a season with the broken leg, I broke my finger (pulling up my socks in the changing rooms before my first game back in a pre-season five-a-side tournament) and missed another season (I was a goalkeeper so a broken finger isn’t ideal), and then on my third game back the following season I saved a close range piledriver with my eyeball and lost the sight in one eye (thankfully I regained my vision after a week). The following season I retired from football.

 

[Varkanoid]

 

[benn5712]

Slipped on ice and broke my left wrist. X-ray doctor said there was scar tissue on my left thumb. Been broken more than once he reckoned.
Oh, I said. That'll be hammer rash, an industrial disease.

 

[Trafford]

@Trafford and @Kenilworth will attest to the fact that I’m more John Inman than John Egan

I was thinking John Barrowman but John Inman probably works just as well......

Incidentally, I played competitive football for 18 years and only broke a couple of ribs (now that was painful). Since stopping, I have played in the friendliest 7-a-side game you could ever imagine and broken my hand and a thumb in separate incidents!

 

[essexblade73]

Yeah but she has a phat ass so all in the room accepted the diagnosis, no questions asked.

Its bigger than Jimmy Floyd Hasselbainks' massive bowling ball arse

 

[LondonBlade89]

P.S. For an encore, having missed a season with the broken leg, I broke my finger (pulling up my socks in the changing rooms before my first game back in a pre-season five-a-side tournament) and missed another season (I was a goalkeeper so a broken finger isn’t ideal), and then on my third game back the following season I saved a close range piledriver with my eyeball and lost the sight in one eye (thankfully I regained my vision after a week). The following season I retired from football.

I'm just trying to imagine how gutted I'd be, getting ready to play in a five-a-side tournament, only to find out that my team's keeper has broken his finger pulling his socks up and won't be able to play. I'm not sure I'd be able to look you in the eye

 

[AlienWoodward]

Egan had his leg amputated below the knee last night, but he was back in training this morning and should be ok to play against Fulham once the anti-biotics kick in.

 

[Bladesman]

Egan had his leg amputated below the knee last night, but he was back in training this morning and should be ok to play against Fulham once the anti-biotics kick in.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Pain???
I once stood on an upturned plug. That's this thread finished

 

[metalblade]

I went over on my ankle playing football, the so called physio did the magic spray trick and said carry on 2 hours later I couldn't walk, my ankle has been weak ever since. Broken bones ......................... only a knuckle. Oh and a couple of broken ribs done in rough seas off Lanzarote now that was painful. I still hope the physio spills fiery jack on his gonads and the boat captain a cold water burial.

 

[Yellarbellyblade]

Pain???
I once stood on an upturned plug. That's this thread finished

Lego bricks are an evil creation too

 

[Winthorpe Blades]

Snapped both my Achillies generally a two year recovery period so snapped my right and two years to the week I snapped my left one - I now walk like I've been dry rodgered by a donkey but I have learnt to fight as I can't run away anymore

 

[TheFlashingBlade]

I'm just trying to imagine how gutted I'd be, getting ready to play in a five-a-side tournament, only to find out that my team's keeper has broken his finger pulling his socks up and won't be able to play. I'm not sure I'd be able to look you in the eye

Oh don’t worry, I didn’t let it stop me from playing - I played five matches in the tournament - and then went to hospital the next morning and had my finger put in a splint for 13 weeks.

As for not being able to look me in the eye, my team mates had no such reluctance. They happily managed to look me in my one one working eye the following season when they tried to persuade me to play in the second game (we played three matches in an evening) having completely lost the vision in one eye In the first match. I declined and went to Moorfields, the famous (and luckily nearby) eye hospital.

 

[Booker4]

Was hoping for a press conference today to enlghten us, but must be tomorrow.

 

[Harrisblade]

Lego bricks are an evil creation too

But at least Subbuteo players have the decency to break as they sneakily attack your foot from underneath.

 

[Bennyand the Blades]

Well he was at home Sunday because his wife posted a picture of new cinema room and he was in the picture

Perhaps he'd just got the builders bill ?