Worst sports injuries: Unless you happen to work as a professional stuntman, or a particularly inept lion tamer, the chances are that you’re unlikely to risk serious injury as part of your day-to-day activities; the worst you can probably expect is a nasty paper cut or a tongue-lashing from your boss for reading this instead of working. The same rules don’t apply to professional sportspersons – their job entails suffering all kinds of pain and brutality in the name of entertainment.
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Here we ‘celebrate’ ten of the most sickening injuries sustained by your sporting heroes.
Unsurprisingly, many of these injuries are caused by hard, fast impact. Two well-built athletes crashing into each other is always going to cause a degree of damage, as we shall explore in detail throughout the article. There are also a number of cases of athletes intentionally inflicting damage upon each other, as well as a long-distance runner with the unfortunate knack of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It goes without saying that some of these injuries are not for the squeamish and some of the accompanying images are graphic in nature – make sure you’re not having your lunch as you read this.
We probably don’t give professional sportsmen and women enough credit for putting their bodies on the line for our entertainment, finely tuned machines at the peak of their physical condition risking (in some cases) life and limb for us, the soft-boned slobs watching them at home, the TV remote in one hand, our soft, saggy guts cradled in the other. Read about these ten tales of horror and woe and thank your higher power of choice that you’re merely the spectator.
10. David Busst
via goal.com
In April 1996, Manchester United were challenging for their third English Premier League title in four years when they welcomed Coventry City to Old Trafford. Though the match ended in a straightforward victory for the Red Devils, the game is forever shrouded in infamy as the last match of Coventry defender David Busst’s professional career. In the third minute, Coventry won a corner which Busst came forward to contest. As the ball was cleared to him, he was tackled on either side by United’s Denis Irwin and Brian McClair. His lower right leg doubled over on itself as he sustained compound fractures to the tibia. As United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel vomited in shock and his blood was washed from the pitch, Busst was carried off for the first of 26 operations to repair the damage to his lower leg. Sadly, Busst contracted MRSA during one operation, the infection forcing him to retire from the sport. Busst remains sanguine about the death of his career – as a surgeon pointed out to him, had the injury happened during there 70s or early ’80s, his leg would have been amputated.
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