Former Premier League player suffers horror injury with game abandoned and wife shaken up

Former Premier League player Stephen Ireland suffers a horror injury with the Sunday League game abandoned and his wife shaken up.

Footage emerged of the moment with Wythenshawe Vets 3-0 up against South Liverpool Vets, the CVFL Premier Cup Final tie halted within the first half an hour then finished at half time.

Players watching on had their hands on their heads in shock at what they had just witnessed. The fan who recorded the video saying it took about 30-40 minutes for the ambulance crew to turn up.

warringtonrylandsfan captioned their post: “Wishing Stephen Ireland a speedy recovery! 😔🙏#papisscisse #wythenshawevets #warringtonrylands #stevenireland”

A warning for those who checks out the video below, it includes audio of a snap.

@warringtonrylandsfan Wishing Stephen Ireland a speedy recovery! 😔🙏#papisscisse #wythenshawevets #warringtonrylands #stevenireland ♬ original sound – Rylands

Wythenshawe Vets said in a statement issued: “Stephen is overwhelmed and incredibly grateful for the support following today’s incident in the Veterans Final.

“His wife Jess shared: ‘Thank you to everyone at today’s game who helped in any way. It was a really upsetting and shocking moment, but the care and unity shown made a huge difference.

“We are so grateful not only to the Wythenshawe FC fans, but also to South Liverpool Vets and everyone at Warrington Rylands: you were all outstanding.’

“A special thank you to the paramedics and ambulance team from Warrington Hospital for their swift and professional care.

“In true Stephen spirit: “Superman will return.” We’re all behind you, Stephen. Wishing you a full and speedy recovery.”

The Manchester Evening News says that Stephen Ireland is ‘doing as well as can be expected, was taken to hospital by ambulance’, as well as keeping the club updated. Also, ‘both teams and the League are to decide the next steps’.

A reminder of Wythenshawe Vet’s squad (as per the FA Full Time website): Marc Albrighton, George Boyd, Graeme Brotherton, Aaron Burns, Neil Chappell, Damien Chmiel, Papiss Cisse, Phillip Clorley, Daniel Cornwell, Steven Dimitch, Nicolas Doyle, Daniel Drinkwater, Marcell Edwards, Corry Evans, Aaron Ewing, Rory John Fallon, Maynor Figueroa-Rochez, Jordan Goodeve, Daniel Heffernan, Emile Heskey, Stephen Ireland, Ben Jackson, Cameron Jerome, Joleon Lescott, Shaleum Logan, Jonathan Maloney, Michael Mancienne, Adrian Mariappa, Clayton McDonald, Paul McShane, Kieran Megran, Ishmael Miller, Jefferson Montero-Vite, Liam Moran, Jason Murrell, Baye Niasse, David Norris, Blake Norton, Chinedum Onuoha, James Pickford, Erik Pieters, Thomas Rogers, Mark Rose, Nicholas Scott, Samuel Patrick Sheridan, Daniel Simpson, Frank Sinclair, Jordan Stewart, Neil Toft, Owen Trainor, Luis Antonio Valencia Mosquera, Martyn Waghorn, Keiren Westwood, Adam Wraxall

They currently sit top of the Cheshire Veterans Football League Premier Division, have won all 10 games, leaving them on 30 points. They have scored 88 goals and conceded 11. Parklands (Widnes) are 2nd with 24 points from 11 games played. South Liverpool are 3rd with 19 points from 10 games played.

The team have also been invited to play Conor McGregor’s Blackforge FC in Ireland, plus, they will take part in the $1million winner-takes-all TST event in America at the end of May.

STEPHEN IRELAND’S CAREER:

Youth career
1994–2001 – Cobh Ramblers
2001–2005 – Manchester City

Senior career
2005–2010 – Manchester City – 176 games (23 goals)
2010–2014 – Aston Villa – 57 games (1 goal)
2011 → Newcastle United (loan) – 2 games (0 goals)
2013–2018 – Stoke City – 70 games (6 goals)
2018 – Bolton Wanderers
Total – 305 games (30 goals)

International career
2005 – Republic of Ireland U21 – 1 game (0 goals)
2006–2007 – Republic of Ireland – 6 games (4 goals)

Social media users reacted after hearing that the former Premier League player suffers a horror injury with the game abandoned and his wife shaken up…

@TeeMac32: Stephen Ireland snapped his leg playing for Wythenshawe vets in the Cheshire vets final. The sound of the break is fucking horrific. Sounds like a gun shot 🤢

RyanSmith 🎮: Jesus the sound

userr199469: Nothing worse than that sound on a football pitch

cwat981: tbf the tackle didn’t even look that malicious. rash, sure but nothing like he went in to hurt him. could be wrong though, hard to tell from the angle.

Nick: Ive heard that noise too many times. I ain’t squeamish but you don’t forget it 😬

Collegiate OBFC: Terrible news. Wish him a speedy recovery

burnsy_cc.utft: Didnt he also break his leg at stoke like a decade ago, hope he gets well soon

ajhawksworth_: That sound can’t be real surely

Reece: I was there it was horrible

Sam: Could hear it

alex: horrible to watch

JJT: My dad went to watch and he said it was very very bad

Yellows4Life: jeez that sounds and looks awful, wishing stephen all the best in recovery, and hope all the teams, players, staffs, officials, who watched that are checked to see if they’re ok too.