November 25 – Macc Town Misery
TO lose a player to a season-ending injury pretty unlucky and to lose two is almost careless. Macclesfield Town went one better today in 2006 when three of their side went down to a bizarre mixture of broken legs and cruciate ligament damage during their clash against local rivals Stockport County.
Matches between these two north west sides are usually a lively affair, but the 1-1 draw at Stockport’s Edgeley Park ground was more incident packed than a night on the tiles with Liam Gallagher.
Town midfielder Simon Wiles was first to depart, suffering cruciate ligament damage after an awkward fall in the first half.
Wiles’ misfortune was completely overshadowed by later events, when Macc ‘keeper Jonathan Brain and defender Andrew Teague accidentally clashed and both ended up with broken legs.
Brain suffered a gruesome compound fracture, losing feeling in his broken leg, and Teague joined him in the fractures clinic.
Town’s assistant manager Ray Mathias said: “I feel gutted for all three players. I’ve never been involved in a football match and see three players stretchered off.
“They’re all bad injuries and the players are understandably down in the changing room because they’re worried about their team-mates.”
Stockport manager Jim Gannon was also quick to offer his sympathy: “I feel really sorry for the Macclesfield players. I’ve never seen three players injured like that in the same match, it’s very rare.”
No footage of the leg snapping incident is available, so the squeamish don’t have to worry about that. Instead see a brilliant clip of pure surrealism at Macc’s game at home to Walsall a couple of weeks earlier.
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R-Unit on November 27th, 2008
That is well funny when all the balls fly in. Brilliant
Jimmy on November 25th, 2008
To add insult to injury, when the defender and goalkeeper collided and broke their legs, as they were both lying on the floor, a Stockport player picked up the loose ball and rolled it into hte empty net to make it 1-1.