The worst sports injuries on campus

We all pick up the odd knocks and bumps when playing sport, but for some these injuries are far more severe than others. From holes in the head to pins in the leg, our sports teams have seen a few stomach turning incidents since the beginning of the University year.

Here The Tab takes a look at some of the worst sports injuries on campus.

Women’s rugby captain Jenny Crowden picked up a nasty eye socket fracture after a clash of heads during rucking practice. The bruising suggests to me that this was a pretty painful incident.

Katie Burden did this while playing for women’s hockey. The girl’s team weren’t really sure as to how it happened, but it looks like she took a fairly hard hit with a hockey stick to the face.

Rugby League’s Jack Farrow was forced to endure an hour long operation, involving a metal plate and three screws, after snapping his ankle. In his words, “my foot got stuck in the ground but my leg was being like rotated in the tackle so it snapped in three places lol…kinda sucked!!”

Below we have another hockey incident. Oliver Woolf picked up a bloody injury and the need for decent shower as, in the words of social secretary Sam Grew, the ball ‘absolutely pinged off him.’

Here’s a nasty snapped wrist, courtesy of Lacrosse’s Lewis Carmody.

And finally we have the perils of a Wednesday night social, as Rugby League’s Shane McGartland demonstrates the consequences of having a few too many whilst celebrating a well-deserved win.

After a number of vodka lemonades, a momentary loss of control is enough to see him face planting a barrier outside Liverpool’s finest night-time location, Envi. Luckily a bag of peas was enough to ease some of the swelling, or not!

The Snapchat says it all…