Happily the victim of that tackle, Ewald Lienen of Arminia Bielefeld, was only out of football for 17 days afterwards and played for another 11 years in the Bundesliga after that, retiring at 38 years of age in 1992, before going on to have a much travelled career in management. He’s still going strong at 70 years of age now.
Speaking of which, they had horses and barriers out at the women’s Manchester derby this morning. Surely a sign of progress if fans are getting tooled up for this.
It was only handbags …
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