Man, 24, rushed to hospital after suffering 'horrendous' injury

A man underwent urgent surgery after suffering a "horrendous injury" while playing football. Adentunji Ogundeji, also known as T, was playing a football match for his team, Mossley Hill AFC, when he was injured, resulting in a double fracture of the tibia and fibula bones.

T underwent an urgent operation, which was performed at Aintree Hospital on Monday, November 11. T's job as a carer means he is often on his feet, lifting patients and helping them around their home. But since his injury, the 24-year-old, who moved to Liverpool from Nigeria a few years ago, has been told he is unable to work for around six months.

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One of the managers of Mossley Hill AFC, Neil Murray, 39, said this will put "huge pressure" on T who lives alone in the city, with nobody around to support and financially assist him while he recovers.

For this reason, his team set up a fundraiser in an effort to help cover his costs while he is unable to work. In under 10 hours, the fundraiser had already reached over £2,000.

Neil said he is "mindblown" by the support of the community. He told the ECHO: "We started it off with a target of £1,000 because we thought it would keep the lights on, so to speak, while he's out of work.

"Within hours we'd already raised over a thousand. Our football club is a massive community. The club has got 42 teams from the ages of six to men and women's open age. It was shared across various WhatsApp groups and everyone's just chipped in for T and got behind him. Sponsors have put a little extra in as well to help the total grow.

"T is really gentle, he's a really nice lad. He's so polite. He's one of the quietest in the dressing room, he just sort of keeps himself to himself. He's only joined us this season so we're coaxing him out of his shell a little bit so he can become more integrated in the group which he has done over the last couple of weeks and months.

"Football is his outlet. Any spare time he gets he's playing football. I've seen him on a Friday night just practicing with one of his mates. And then we have team training on Tuesdays which he gets to and our matches on a Saturday."

T, who doesn't drive, has to get trains and buses to training each week. Neil added: "He's a really keen footballer. He spends his weekends in training. He's so committed to his football so obviously he's bitterly disappointed that he can't play for a while."

Anyone wishing to donate to T's GoFundMe can do so here.