{"id":31410,"date":"2019-12-24T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/malaysia\/?p=31410"},"modified":"2020-01-07T08:56:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T00:56:33","slug":"all-time-gnarliest-football-injuries-that-ended-premier-league-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/malaysia\/2019\/12\/24\/all-time-gnarliest-football-injuries-that-ended-premier-league-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"All-time gnarliest football injuries that ended Premier League careers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite a litany of codified laws making the world\u2019s most popular sport safer for players, a spirited game of football can still result in some gnarly injuries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is very little that can be done to minimise the blunt force potential of a human being running at full speed, and far less that anyone can do to prevent any limbs that happen to get in the way from getting wrecked.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes a collision just means the offender gets shown a red card while the injured party gets carried off the pitch on a stretcher. Other times, the injury leaves lasting effects that brings down professional careers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a list of the gnarliest career-ending injuries to have occurred during a game of professional football.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stuart Holden (2011 Manchester United v Bolton Wanderers)<\/b><\/p>\n

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Evans apparently surprised at the rules of the game he was paid to play, \u201cWhat do you mean \u2018it\u2019s not that kind of football\u2019?\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and raised in Texas, Stuart Holden was a photogenic and talented midfielder who played collegiate \u201csoccer\u201d in the United States but he apparently harboured ambitions to play in the Premier League, so he gave up a lucrative career in order to make it into the league of his choice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Backstory<\/b><\/p>\n

His first foray across the Atlantic at age 20 had him signed with Sunderland, but a brutal introduction to some of the more boisterous fans of English football at a bar in Newcastle left him with a fractured eye socket that delayed his training for six months; a subsequent ankle injury eventually had him sent back to the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in the United States, Stuart Holden spent the next few years making a name for himself as an up and coming player while with Houston Dynamo, but he turned down a lucrative $350,000 per season paycheck and a chance to become the face of Major League Soccer to finally make it into the Premier League with the Bolton Wanderers in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Incident<\/b><\/p>\n

Shortly after his successful debut in the Premier League, in a drawn-out match with Manchester United that saw no goals until the last few minutes, Stuart Holden found himself driving the ball towards the goal and was likely seconds from sending it into the net before he was brought down in a tackle by defender Jonny Evans.<\/span><\/p>\n