dandydunn Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Reported to be fighting for his life after a head clash against Chelsea today. Brutal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Hull have just released a statement saying he's got a fractured skull but is in a stable condition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandydunn Posted January 22, 2017 Author Share Posted January 22, 2017 2 minutes ago, aaid said: Hull have just released a statement saying he's got a fractured skull but is in a stable condition. Just seen that. Bad thing to see on tv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 3 minutes ago, dandydunn said: Bad thing to see on tv. I was at the game but it was up the other end so thankfully never saw anything. Medical staff were on straight away and there was no "get a move on" nonsense that you sometimes get, pretty obvious straight away it was something serious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Was that in the first half? I saw that over 10 minutes of injury time had been played and thought someone must have gotten a bad one. Hope he's alright. What happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reevesy Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 8 minutes ago, Parklife said: Was that in the first half? I saw that over 10 minutes of injury time had been played and thought someone must have gotten a bad one. Hope he's alright. What happened? Clash of heads with Gary Cahill. Some websites reported he was fighting for his life but he's now stable apparently. Not nice to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandydunn Posted January 23, 2017 Author Share Posted January 23, 2017 1 hour ago, Parklife said: Was that in the first half? I saw that over 10 minutes of injury time had been played and thought someone must have gotten a bad one. Hope he's alright. What happened? Think it was about 10 mins in or so. Both went for the ball and came out badly. Apparently MOTD 2 didn't show it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 As an aside, Cahill obviously went down as well and had to have treatment, a second stretcher came on to the park at one point but it obviously wasn't needed as he was up an on his feet after 3-4 minutes. What then happened was that the ref then sent Cahill to the touch line where he had to stand until Mason had been taken off, the substitution made and play restarted, in fact the 4th official physically stopped him from coming back on too early. Clearly, they needed to take as long as they did to stabilise Mason and get him off the pitch safely so no issue with that. The officials were only going by the letter of the law but it was one of those circumstances where the letter of the law just looks ridiculous. Fair play to the ref, he got Cahill back on as quickly as he could but I suspect even he thought it was stupid. i guess it's one of those situations where you would want to see referees use a bit of common sense but then that would lead them being accused of being inconsistent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishcumnock Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 He's sitting up talking now , had surgery for fractured skull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenfrewBlue Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 8 hours ago, dandydunn said: Think it was about 10 mins in or so. Both went for the ball and came out badly. Apparently MOTD 2 didn't show it. Motd2 did show the challenge but no replays or close ups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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