David Busst injury (Graphic image)

Bit of a blast from the past. Didn't click on the link- I still remember the pics from the time.
Schmeichel vommed ffs, so you can imagine it was pretty horrific.
 
Jippy said:
Bit of a blast from the past. Didn't click on the link- I still remember the pics from the time.
Schmeichel vommed ffs, so you can imagine it was pretty horrific.
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I just remembered Schmeichel hiding his face in his hands and turning away - the vommit part was new to me. I remember another horrible injury - it was a danish defender during a European Championships I think.
 
Jeepers creepers. Looks like the MRSA came very close to claiming his leg altogether.
 
It looks like a shark has bitten his leg in half. Its amazing he never lost his leg, looking at the state of it in 2015.

This picture is the most sickening. Never saw an injury like it. His leg is in the shape of the letter U.
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lysglimt said:
I just remembered Schmeichel hiding his face in his hands and turning away - the vommit part was new to me. I remember another horrible injury - it was a danish defender during a European Championships I think.
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Apparently he vommed. Was a lot made of it at the time. Seem to remember he was trying to calm the fans cos they were getting oissed that he was down injured so long.

Do you remember the story that Schmikes and Cantona went to visit him at the hospital but got turned away cos they weren't family? Apparently they didn't recognise them somehow.

.Rossi said:
It's the pic of his leg today that's disturbing really
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Urgh, am sure it aint gonna look good. Remember an interview years ago and he was saying then that he'd had 17-odd operations, poor lad.
 
Jippy said:
Apparently he vommed. Was a lot made of it at the time. Seem to remember he was trying to calm the fans cos they were getting oissed that he was down injured so long.

Do you remember the story that Schmikes and Cantona went to visit him at the hospital but got turned away cos they weren't family? Apparently they didn't recognise them somehow.


Urgh, am sure it aint gonna look good. Remember an interview years ago and he was saying then that he'd had 17-odd operations, poor lad.
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26 operations now apparently
 
I was at the match. It was an awful injury - coming from one of those collisions that look like nothing and happen all the time. I was a fair distance away but you could tell from the reaction of the players that it was bad. I remember them mopping up after he was carried off and Schmeichel drying off a bloody puddle with his towel. Grim injury.

I remember the stories about infection at the time and hearing that he might lose the leg. Seeing his leg now, I'm not that surprised by the damage, it must have been a fight to keep it.
 
He scored against us in his Testimonial after that. In one of those "give him a goal" moments. Nice touch.
 
Makes you think, this is why you don't let your contract run into its final year when you are being offered an extension. That kind of freak injury can happen any time and there's no recovering from that.
 
.Rossi said:
26 operations now apparently
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Urgh, I cracked. Wow he has been through a lot.
jojojo said:
I was at the match. It was an awful injury - coming from one of those collisions that look like nothing and happen all the time. I was a fair distance away but you could tell from the reaction of the players that it was bad. I remember them mopping up after he was carried off and Schmeichel drying off a bloody puddle with his towel. Grim injury.

I remember the stories about infection at the time and hearing that he might lose the leg. Seeing his leg now, I'm not that surprised by the damage, it must have been a fight to keep it.
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Yeah, so much tissue lost. Horrific scarring, almost looks like a burns victim.
How long did it take before people started to realise it was serious injury? I guess if you can see the players visibly upset and shocked, eg Eduardo v Brum, you know it's bad.
 
Jippy said:
Urgh, I cracked. Wow he has been through a lot.

Yeah, so much tissue lost. Horrific scarring, almost looks like a burns victim.
How long did it take before people started to realise it was serious injury? I guess if you can see the players visibly upset and shocked, eg Eduardo v Brum, you know it's bad.
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In the video that it happens Schmeichel throws the ball straight out, it happened in front of him.
 
Worst leg break ive ever seen, I remember one of the tabloids had a huge picture of his leg basically hanging by the skin on the back, noway they would get away with printing that nowadays
 
Jesus just watched the vid. Schmeichel would have looked up and the first thing he would have seen after collecting the ball was the state of Buust's leg. Bet he is scarred too.
 
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/peter-schmeichel-one-one
Is it true that you had to have therapy to get over seeing David Busst's leg broken before your eyes? How did you play on after that happened?
Karen Walters, via e-mail
No, I never had therapy, but it wasn’t a nice experience. I saw it all happen. It was early on in a game we needed to win, the crowd were really up for it, there was a fantastic atmosphere, but after that everyone went numb and the atmosphere disappeared. Both teams just went through the motions to get the game over. It was very difficult. What we had witnessed was horrendous, very, very nasty. It was tragic for David.

We tried to see David in the following days, but he was having too many operations. However, we were fortunate enough to play in his testimonial a year later. The game was in our holiday time, but every United player was queuing up to play in it. Then a year later I bumped into him at Old Trafford and we had a good, long chat, and for me that was the day it finished. It was closure, because he told me he was happy, working with kids in Coventry. For two years, from the accident to that day, it was in my head all the time. I felt sorry for him, but also I knew it could have happened to any one of us. To see him as happy as he was showed me that he had come through it all.
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Schmeichel is a class guy.
 
Oh my days poor guy, his leg today

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Great save from Schmeichel that.

In all seriousness, I don't think I've ever seen a leg look quite like his does now. Awful.
 
Jesus Christ :(

There are two football injuries that make my stomach churn every time I watch them. One is Dagfinn Enerly, a Norwegian who broke his neck during the final game of the season almost 10 years ago and is still paralyzed today. The other is David Busst. Seeing the state of his leg even today isn't going to change that. Absolutely horrendous picture. It defies belief that you can mess up your leg that badly by playing a sport. If you'd shown me that picture I would have guessed shark attack, war victim or something along those lines. Football injury? Never in a million years.
 
That's awful. Probably the worst leg break I've ever seen is Kevin Ware. Don't google it if you're squeamish.
 
I remember i was listening to this match on the radio (yeah no streams back in those days) and it sounded awful, i think i remember the commentator saying they had to mop up a load of blood before the match could resume.

But the pictures the next day were worse than i imagined, the worst injury i can remember in football.

Theafonis said:
Oh my days poor guy, his leg today

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Jesus looks like a Shark bite or something, gruesome.
 
I know a lad with arm injuries that are eerily similar to that - and yes, it was a shark attack that did it.

26 operations, Jesus.
 
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