Hurling hands: Ger Cunningham - 'The worst injury I ever got was when I’d finished playing and involved a lawnmower'

I got the odd fracture, but a lot of dislocations because of catching the ball as a goalkeeper - the ball might wobble as it dropped, land on the very top of your fingertip and jolt the joint out.

Hurling hands: Ger Cunningham - 'The worst injury I ever got was when I’d finished playing and involved a lawnmower'

I got the odd fracture, but a lot of dislocations because of catching the ball as a goalkeeper - the ball might wobble as it dropped, land on the very top of your fingertip and jolt the joint out.

But that wasn’t a big deal, someone would come on and put it back in and carry on.

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