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Tonight, straight after work, I went to play a particular sport with a mate.  I have spent the evening swapping bags of frozen stuff on my hideously swollen knee.  Can't put any weight on it and standing is an issue.  Really concerned about getting to work in the morning.

The sport? Badminton.  The incident?  Tripping over my own feet.  The shame.

When : aged 25 (1999 ish)

Sport : Street Hockey
Incident: Falling over when spinning around, put hand out to break fall, hand colided with curb.

Injury: Dislocated little finger

Embarrassment factor: 8/10 - Trip to hospital to get it put back in. Had to get wife to come from Basingstoke to Ciren to pick me up as couldn't drive. Arm in sling elevated to reduce swelling to finger. Took bloody ages to get proper movement back.

Not been on inline skates since.

1983 football match at school. My left ankle was broken by one of my best mates (he had his wrist in plaster after falling off bike). Break wasn't spotted until 45 mins of me sat on sidelines then trying to stand up. Boot was cut off!  :eek:

My Dad was messing about at table tennis about 6 months ago and somehow tripped and to stop falling went to grab the table. He nearly missed, but caught his hand enough to dislocate and bend all his fingers upwards at 90' on the knuckle. His tendons and everything in his hand are still fucked and he hates telling people it's because he tripped playing table tennis.

Frankly for being 25 and on roller skates, you deserved it.

When I was a youngster I used to go ice skating sometimes at the link centre.

I never did get very good at it and fell over often. One time that I fell over my wrist landed on the steps that lead off the rink, where those steps are cut up pretty badly due to the skate blades I cut myself quite badly.

The projectile bleeding was quite impressive and in no time a large pool of blood had spread across the surface of the ice, forcing them to close the rink on a busy Satruday afternoon.

Badminton is bit of a 'girly' sport.

I've done my ankle ligaments one after the other before, actually quite recently...

I've had my worst sporting injuries playing badminton.

A torn calf muscle which took months to recover, then more recently my knee bent the wrong way on me - that was 4 months before I was pain free.

Never underestimate the old battledore and shuttlecock.

I love playing a bit of badminton, therefore it isn't girlie. :)

Ball smashed into my chin.....chipped all my teeth...had to have them ground smooth by dentist!

My old man was watching me play football the other week. At half-time he went for a slash, and damaged his arm moving a branch: he's been receiving physio for four weeks!

The guys that run the curry house in Calne are AMAZIN badminton players - I mean you see the older folk knocking about but these guys are seriously good - they in play bare feet too

I'm not sure any of you can beat me breaking my ankle whilst WATCHING football on the terrace at Barnet away!

I think my least heroic sporting injury would be when I broke my thumb playing football at school. Turned around to head off the pitch as it was end of lunchtime. Unknown to me the ball had already been played upfield, it bounced and hit me right on the end of the thumb causing it to swell to twice its normal size.

I then spent the next two hours in class moaning that my thumb was broken because the school wouldn't let me go home.

I also fractured my wrist saving a toe punt from just a few yards, but I think that's more heroic as I prevented a goal.

T'was playing netball actually fred.

collapsed at half time of a TA select football game at Sparta Prague's trainging ground due to the heat (and possibly due to the large amounts of alcohol consumed the night before) cue a nice little visit from the Czech Ambulance Service and being hooked up to drips in the clubs weights room. Next game i fucked my back up playing in Iceland, and the game after that I dislocated my finger in Amsterdam, still sore now over a months later. Getting too old for this football lark me thinks.

Not really a sport but I cracked my ribs a month back going down a water slide.

I once tore my ankle ligaments after tripping over a twig when having a kickabout with my mates before my RE GCSE. The fuckers didn't believe how much it hurt and just left me there sat on the floor. I had to hop (looking like a complete twat) all the way from the school field to the exam hall. I was more interested in my ankle swelling up about 3 times as big rather than remembering the 5 pillars of Islam. I always blame this incident on why I got a grade D in my RE GCSE (my worst GCSE result).

Whatever you do, don't blame the Prophet otherwise there'll be a fatwah declared

I fell off my bicycle and snapped my crutiate ligament - Big Ouch!!

Didn't Dave Beasant break his toe by dropping a bottle of salad cream on his foot?That's pretty unheroic

Didn't Rio also do something quite serious to his knee whilst reaching for the TV remote a while back?  Mind you, that's an amateur error - never sit down without the remote by your side.

I think Rio's was where he sat with his leg up on the coffee table which fucked his muscles up for having his leg in an unnatural position for so long. Or something like that.

Think so, and I'm sure Kevin Poole (Leicester City goalie) dropped his player of the year award at the ceremony...'twas a large glass bowl. :doh:

Kevin Kyle scalded his bollocks iirc.

That now sounds more familiar than my version.

Dont worry mate i got a U. I wrote my name, and my plans about how i was going to get plastered at the end of the exams. Take that Mrs Jackson!

My mate was a pretty decent footballer and in a desperate attempt to equalise in a mess around game in a PE session in year 11 (the losing team always had to do 10 pressups) he completely dislocated his knee and was told he would never be able to play football again.

I broke my arm ice skating but that was about it. Not really a sport.

You'll be apologising, fo' real.

Did not mean to make your daughter cry, I apologise a million times.

Ace song.

All these years I thought it was "doggy cry"... another illusion shattered.