They've let me home for the night as I live close by and my wife is a GP. I'm to report back first thing in the morning, getting surgery tomorrow to elevate some of the worst fractures, and they'll decide on further surgeries then. They think the vision will be ok.
I'm on a liquid/soft diet for 4 weeks as the bones that connect the face to the skull are all fractured, so essentially my face is floating loose.
I don't think he could have kicked me any harder if he tried, I can't believe it wasn't a red and suspension for violent conduct. It's not the first time I've heard of keepers here getting hospitalised for ridiculously late challenges after winning the ball, and of the 3 other examples I know of, it was always just a yellow card.
Spurs 2 Croatia 7 (as reported)
Worst part of all of this was about 25 minutes into the first half. Our keeper came out horizontally and cleaned up a breakaway ball, and got a face-full of boot for his troubles. We pulled him carefully off the field with a cut cheek and a suspected concussion; he was in pretty rough shape and this just got worse as he looked to go into shock on the bench. An ambulance was called and he ended up at VGH. In his own words, things were a bit more severe:
A yellow card was given on the play to the forward; I am not going to add any more opinion to this and say whether I thought it was deliberate or not. All I will say is that the Croatia guys were helpful in supplying stuff from their own first aid kit and a couple of them stayed with him until the paramedics arrived, but we definitely weren't playing full out after it happened.
I would order the matches as above for MOTW voting.Predictions for this week Bonefish?
A call came in while I was typing..my Processor got hot and reduced voltage while trying to multi-task....uh....Bonefish - if Harps beat us how does this help Croatia leapfrog Shaheen?