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Scottish soccer participant Jane O’Toole ought to palms down be given an award for ‘the toughest player’ because the St Mirren Ladies’s captain suffered a horrendous harm by dislocating her kneecap on the pitch, determined to hammer it again in and stored taking part in on the sphere.
How does a Scottish footballer take care of a dislocated kneecap?
St Mirren WFC captain Jane O’Toole bashes her kneecap again into place earlier than taking part in on for the rest of the sport.
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— BBC Sport Scotland (@BBCSportScot) February 21, 2020
The harm occurred proper after the second half towards Inverness the place her facet was shedding 6-Zero within the Scottish Cup.
O’Toole was going for a 50-50 interception, obtained hit on the bottom the place her kneecap moved from her traditional place, and she or he managed to punch it again into the place.
As a substitute of looking for for medical consideration and leaving the sport, she determined to not give up and get again on the sphere to play the rest of 40 minutes, which St Mirren misplaced 7-0. The captain was handled by the medical employees and has been given the inexperienced sign following her scary harm.
Everyone would have forgiven her to depart the pitch given the circumstances however the captain refused and reveals a stage of toughness majority of us have by no means wanted to ponder. After which there may be Neymar.
In the meantime, in males’s soccer…. pic.twitter.com/WXcIYm1VPB
— Stephen Campbell (@stephenjcam) February 21, 2020
