Dad 'lucky to be alive' after clash on football pitch leaves him with horror injuries

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A Scots dad says he’s lucky to be alive after he suffered horror injuries in a freak accident while playing football.

Jordan Spiers, from Cumbernauld, was left with lacerations to his spleen, kidney, and three fractured three ribs after colliding with another player on the pitch on Sunday, November 3.

The 30-year-old was later rushed back to hospital with a blood clot in his bladder.

The goalkeeper was playing for Carron Huskies as they took on Corstorphine Dynamo in Edinburgh as part of a league designed to help overweight men get back into playing football.

Jordan told the Record his stomach felt like "a bag of coins" seconds after the collision.

He said: “It was an absolute freak accident.

"The player was running at me while I was running to collect the ball.

"I felt the full weight of his knee go into my side when we clashed.

"I was lying on the ground and thought I'd broken my back.

"Eventually I stood up and my stomach felt like a bag of coins in it, everything was just falling about.

"I could actually feel my ribs clattering off each other."

Jordan was helped off of the pitch by a first aider who tried to call an ambulance to the Edinburgh pitch.

His brother Chris then rushed him to A&E at Forth Valley hospital.

Jordan continued: "I was sitting in the changing room and had no idea how serious it was.

“We play in a league to help overweight men get back fit and playing football. The player running at me is an absolute unit and I’m an absolute unit so accidents happen.

"On the way to the hospital the pain suddenly became unbearable.

"I’ve had kidney problems in the past and I just knew it was my kidney."

Doctors told Jordan he was lucky to be alive after scans showed he suffered serious lacerations to his speen, kidney and fractured three ribs which had pierced his organs.

"It’s a miracle I never needed any surgery. It was a grade 2 laceration to my spleen and a grade 3 to my kidney," he explained.

“I’d suffered five fractures across three ribs in total and they pierced through my organs. The doctors said I was lucky I didn't need any surgery and any more force could have been fatal.

"You'd have thought I was in a car crash."

He was discharged from hospital on November 7 but less than 24 hours later he was rushed back with a blood clot that had developed in his bladder.

Jordan, whose partner Sarah, 34, is eight months pregnant with their second child, says their nine-year-old daughter Kayla has begged him not to play again.

He added: "I was lucky I didn't die - twice. The blood clot never travelled beyond my bladder.

“It’s frightening to think I could have died just playing a game of football. I think I might have to hang my boots up for good now.”

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Jordan's team mates have rallied around him and organised a fundraiser to help support his family financially while he remains off work in the run up to Christmas.

You can donate Jordan's Go Fund Me here.

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