“It doesn’t sound stupid, but at that very moment the stadium fell silent,” says Manchester United’s greatest defender, David May..
“All you could feel was the crunch of my leg - the two sides of my head collided - then a scream.”.
He remembers the 8th quarter of 1996, the day when Coventry City defender David Bast suffered a painful leg fracture at Old Trafford. For the rich, they will be deprived of the worst football injury recorded in spitting.
With just four matches to go before the end of the Premier League season, Manchester United led Newcastle by six points.
Coventry were one point ahead of the Villota zone, but they started the match aggressively and scored Kutovyi in 86 seconds.
Ellie Pickering's serve from Noel Vilan on the front post, but his header was parried by Peter Schmeichel.
Bast raced towards the ball, only being ten yards away from the post, but accelerating so hard that he reached the skinny swedder of two United players, Denis Irwin and Brian McClair, who were laying in the tackle.
The kick led to the ball reaching Schmeichel’s hands.
“Instinctively, I thought: “We’ll be hammered there,” - even May.
“And then I shook my leg, and, oh God, it was greedy. You could see what David saw. I'm turning away. Just thinking about it sends shivers down your spine."
Schmeichel was lying on the ground with the ball in his hands, ale, roblechi "
When the Danish goalkeeper raised his eyes, he remembered those that had once been carved into his memory.
Bast suffered a folded fracture of the greater and lesser muscles, as a result of which his right leg hung under the greedy pile.
Bast, who is now working in the beneficial organization of Sky Blues In The Community near Coventry, having remembered that moment.
" I thought: “Don’t collapse, and it’s all over,” but it’s over. I was terrified to turn around, the splinters on the face of Dion Dublin would.
Irwin ran from the stand up to me and capped me above the ankle, and McClear was behind, and my leg capped me above the ankle. All three of us were going to win or block the ball, so I’m not calling anyone.
If two protracted forces collided in that one fraction of a second, there may be only one. I'm sure it won't happen again"
Manchester United and Coventry faced off in the FA Cup finals in a match that had not happened in the Premier League since 2001, but which would later be synonymous with the nine-armed tooth that ended his career Basta.
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" I don’t think there were two people fighting each other on our team.
I don’t remember the hard work I made on that day. I would never have been able to guess the answer to the match."
United won 1:0 with a goal from Canton two weeks after the break.
The details are lost on those who were on the field that day, including Manchester United senior Leigh Sharp, who felt the crack of brushes while standing outside the penalty area.
“It was greedy to steal after this,” says Sharpe. " There was a wonderful atmosphere, I think everyone was in shock."
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In 1996, a group of offending club doctors were forced to sit in the box, and paramedics were forced to sit in the Stretford End tunnel and were not allowed onto the pitch to provide assistance..
In an unprecedented situation, United's team called in their physiotherapist, David Fevre, for help..
“Our boys called us and said, ‘Dave, you need to get married,’” says Fevre.
“When I arrived there, David screamed in pain, my first thought was: “I need two gravers who can help me.”. Dion Dublin and McClair talked to him to relieve stress. Basta's brush penetrated the skin and created a sheen of blood.
His priority was to stop bleeding and avoid wasting information and guilt of any further complications. Trying to pick up any grass or brood, sprinkling the wounds with a physiological solution, and then bandaging them to remove the blood.
Only then can you fall into a fracture due to the fracture itself.
“My leg was almost 90 degrees,” said Febvre.
" If there aren't any, you'll end up with bleeding legs, and then you'll have an even bigger problem..
" I trimmed the upper and lower parts of the fracture while we were putting him on the load, and maintaining his stability while we carried him across the field into the tunnel, where the paramedics could give him soreness."
In those days only the service of the Swedish Aid of St. John was allowed. This meant that February mav ceruvate with a smooth reaction without special encouragement.
He is one of the mentors to the Faculty of the Football Association, and Bast's injury is often guessed at.
“I don’t want to be rude, but having worked ten rocks in rugby, I’ve been through such injuries,” says Fevre. “This will burn you so that you can escape from this city”.
“I’ll just turn around in my place and switch my mind to the decision, since things might be different in the coming battle.”.
There was such chaos that referee Dermot Gallagher was hesitant to allow the Gravecians to enter the field with a torrent of water and sand..
Gallagher still can't let his thoughts get caught up in this 27 years because.
“It took me two years to get back to Old Trafford,” says The Athletic.
" I am unique in talking about this as if I were talking about the plague."
Bast was given the death penalty when the doctors took off his leg and put it on the back plate. Ale tse was deprived of the cob of his clothes at the hour of the first six-day stay in the doctor's shop.
“I remember this dearly, because the speed bumps outside Old Trafford were so great that it seemed like I was going through new and new times,” says Bast.
Most people thought it was useful for road transport until they put on a football uniform.
If “Great Ron” came to me, first, he said, “Basti, you are guilty of being killed! You don’t want us to be sick, but you want people to take the pressure. No one steals from anyone"
Basta needed mild relief after undergoing ten surgeries in the first 12 days to clean and sterilize the areas to prevent tissue infections, including MRSA..
Another one also had a hematoma on the outer side of his leg, which caused such severe burning that he had to cut it open to relieve the pressure.
Then the infection spread down to the tendon, which also happened to be cut, losing the one that connected the big toe on the nose.
Basta was inserted into the leg of the six -inchoi Stift, a dopomogti z’ydnati kistka, tacot was wearing the calls of the fіksator, pricking to the heds of Kinziv Gomіki, stimulating, and the Klycifka sow.
Faced with new problems, the infection spread further. We had a chance to see another operation after three months. Bast finally needed an operation to correct the hole on his left Achilles tendon, which was resolved through over-the-counter compensation during the hour of kulgannya.
" “There was a real concern that my leg would have to be amputated from the knee down,” said Bast.
" Then they transplanted the skin from my back to transplant my back part, so it looks like.
One of the shortest operations that I performed after two years was an update so that I could tighten my toe. What made me gamble, I lost my foot. I can't hit the ball. I needed three rocks to hit the ball again."
" “It was greedy,” says Williams, who is playing together with Bast for a woman over 35 years old.
" I put the front seat of my car, and I sat in the back, raising my leg and wiping all the metal from it..
Professional football has come a long way, and that’s all we want. It was greedy to find a new place, but it was spectacular, it was lower.
It will be smooth, honest and legal. This is what he brought to the game of that day, and this is what ended his career."
Old Trafford is already important for Basta, as professional football has become a staple. Played for the Moor Green club in Birmingham for up to 24 years.
One of the trial games for Coventry won at Old Trafford in 1991, and five years later, he won 28 games, having won 50 games with the Premier League..
Williams appreciates that he may have suffered many more fates, and is blamed for the truth: he blames him for those who just suffered the same fate as those who tried him, like that day in 1996.?
“These are just those that I didn’t even think about,” says Bast. "
I was always attacked and attacked the ball. If I was thinking about this speech, I would be injured in many ways.
I can’t change anything, but I know what kind of measles I can get rid of. After which the possibilities arose for me.
We'll know you better, no matter what."
Gravs called Basta, trying to get rid of injuries. I'm 57 years old and play for Leamington Seniors.
In Peter Schmeichel’s autobiography “Odin,” he says: “What happened to him never left me.”. This was the greatest thing that I had seen on the football field, and so close that it became even more part of me. You might be surprised, but this somehow connected me with David Bast"
From The Athletic.