Clarets Players Careers Ruined By Injury

[Steve1956]

Ever as in Ever, Ever?

Forever and ever

[claptrappers_union]

There was a lad we had on loan from Rovers, Jay McEverley. Came to get minutes under his belt after being injured and was then got seriously injured again, but with us.

Edit: just wiki’ed McEverley, his heart stopped beating while having a cheekbone operation when he was at Derby. A bit off topic, but jeez...

[JohnDearyMe]

Frank's first home game as manager in 1983 was against Barnsley who were managed by Hunter.

Did Hunter ever apologise/express regret?

[Claret Toni]

An ex Claret - Geoff Nulty.

If memory serves me right, Jimmy Case was the other party in a Liverpool derby.

[claretabroad]

Not sure his career was ruined - he was 31 when we signed him

31? I always thought he was much younger. Just looked him up on the wiki and he carved out a pretty good career for himself, sadly not for us.

[ClaretTony]

31? I always thought he was much younger. Just looked him up on the wiki and he carved out a pretty good career for himself, sadly not for us.

Known as Lord Lucan - so rarely did he play

[mdd2]

Not read ll of this but has anyone posted Defour?

[Papabendi]

You can add Neil grewcock and John Francis

[Local cricketer]

Micheal Duff had a bad one but came back better than ever

[Clarets4me]

Charlie Austen- sure he would have been an England regular were it not for his glass shoulder/knee/ankle

Most of those mentioned on had their careers curtailed or progress limited by " 3rd parties ", Mr Austen, sadly, was his own worst enemy ...

[Garnerssoap]

You can add Neil grewcock and John Francis

Did a bloke with a mullet from Halifax do grewcock
I gave one of their mulleted fullback pelters for 80 mins the following season till my mate told me it was the wrong mullet.

[djemba-djemba]

John Clayton is one that comes to mind.

Not sure his career was ruined - he was 31 when we signed him

Wasn't he already finished when he signed?
I don't remember him playing many games but I remember him scoring against Huddersfield in 1992 with a huge knee brace on.

He only played three games for us and he scored a free kick on a flooded pitch against Huddersfield in his second game. He was substituted the following week at Bolton and we never saw him again.

We'd signed him from Volendam, we had him for two years and then he retired. He then worked for 17 years as a coach at Bristol City within the academy and has since worked for the Football League as a youth development regional manager so has never left the game.