Chuffin hell. Glad it wasn't a real life or death emergency. The medics took an age to get onto the pitch to look at their player who was down. Looked like he was struggling to breathe. On a similar note, fingers crossed for that Huddersfield player airlifted to hospital.
Like us they were maybe thinking there'll be **** all wrong with him, he's a footballer after all. Lo and behold he was up and straight back into the game. Bunch of pansies.
Well from where I was sitting he was, at least for a few minutes struggling to breathe. The players around, the physio and the ref frantically waving for help. And their job is to respond, quickly? I get what you say about footballers, but they (the first aid team), are there to respond as an emergency. Took them ages to waddle onto the pitch and even then they left some kit behind. If they are volunteers, I apologise, but I suspect the days of St Johns Volunteers are gone. (The organisation I work for has to pay for First Aid staff).
TBH I think they were out there pretty quick. One ran to the player and the rest brought the kit (which is pretty heavy and cumbersome). And I believe they are YAS.
Beg to differ. The one who "ran" was walking by the time she got there cos she was out of breath. 50 yards! Their fans were going mental cos they could see it was taking too long, and at the time it looked like an emergency.The one who went back for kit walked/ walked fast/ jogged. (to be fair they had probably assessed him by then) Like I say, glad it wasn't a real emergency in the end.
Maybe if it wasnt for the 99 out of a 100 footballers who behave like little girls on the pitch then fans might be more sympathetic to genuine injury. As it is I just presume they're all play acting. They've only got themselves to blame.
I was amazed at the medical training of some of the fans round me who from 100 yards away, without any knowledge of what was going on, decided he was faking whatever was wrong with him and therefore felt it appropriate to boo him. They should get their own TV show like House. He was clearly in distress and the physio, doctor and emergency response deemed it serious enough to give him 10 minutes of treatment. Just because he got up doesn't mean he wasn't in need of treatment in that moment. Hope he's ok, wonder what it was.
So you don't get frustrated seeing all the feigning of injury, the gamesmanship, cheating and trying to get opponents sent off. Likewise words fail me.
