Ali Ahmed.

[morty]

Talking about when he did his ACL. I did mine twice, it doesn't tickle lol.

Although surgical procedures get better and better, players don't always come back as the same player they were.

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[isbadiz]

I was sat at the other end of the pitch in the corner infill between River and City Stands. As soon as he did it I heard the scream from all that distance and I leaned over to my uncle and said I think he's done his ACL. You knew straight away he was probably going to be out a while.

 

[Ricardo]

Not nice to witness serious injuries. I well remember when Phil Mulryne broke his leg in front of me down at the River End. Horrible to watch. Also back in my playing days I recall something similar. None of us wanted to play on after that but I think we did although it did become very much like a non contact game.

 

[Lazza]

My achilles snapped while playing 5-a-side. At the time, I was just standing on my own. I thought someone had kicked me in the back of the leg - I swore loudly, and turned - and there was nobody there! It was onl when I tried to step forward I realised what had happened. Everyone else all stopped when it went as they all heard the loud snap (and my shout).
Of course I had driven there, and I couldn't drive home, so someone had to drive me home in my own car, with someone following to give them a lift back. I then had dinner before heading to the hospital as, while I knew it meant I would probably need an operation, I knew it meant I was in for a long wait at the hospital!

 

[morty]

My achilles snapped while playing 5-a-side. At the time, I was just standing on my own. I thought someone had kicked me in the back of the leg - I swore loudly, and turned - and there was nobody there! It was onl when I tried to step forward I realised what had happened. Everyone else all stopped when it went as they all heard the loud snap (and my shout).
Of course I had driven there, and I couldn't drive home, so someone had to drive me home in my own car, with someone following to give them a lift back. I then had dinner before heading to the hospital as, while I knew it meant I would probably need an operation, I knew it meant I was in for a long wait at the hospital!

That is a horrible, horrible injury.

I tore my ACL in my left knee, the first time, when playing football on a dusty pitch while working in Kuwait. I went in for a tackle and clashed knees with a player, and there was a massive crack, people on the sidelines thought I had broken my leg. After attempts at rehab (You can actually do without your ACL if you build up the quad and hammy enough) the surgeon replaced my ACL using a third of my hamstring. Turns out he made an absolute arse of it as a year later I was playing volleyball and jumped at the net to block a shot, and landed and crumpled. I went into Peterborough hospital to have it reconstructed again, woke up from the anaesthetic with the knee feeling great, and an incredible pain in my hip. They use steel screws to screw the donor ligament into your leg bones and when they got in there the holes had become enlarged, and would take a screw, so they took out two bone plugs from my hip, plugged the holes, then sent me home for 4 months while they grafted in. After that they reconstructed again using a patellar tendon graft this time, and that has been fine since 2005.

I won't tell you about my other knee lol...