Had an incident in an U15 match this week in which a player suffered a non contact but serious injury (in the act of scoring a very good goal). The goal put the home team 2-0 up. What protocols would colleagues suggest in terms of length of time to wait before abandoning the match with a player awaiting an ambulance lying on the pitch?
In this case, both teams were happy to wait a while for the ambulance to arrive and I had nowhere else I needed to be urgently, so we were able to complete the game after around a 40 minute delay. Incidentally, the home team coach went off and found a stretcher that looked like it was a Dad’s Army prop and they moved him off the pitch (his mum was there and gave the ok for that to happen- I wasn’t entirely happy with the idea personally). It turned out to be both a dislocation of the knee and a fractured tibia and that was with no contact from anyone else. Explains why I was a defender in my playing days, that shooting business is risky!
In this case, both teams were happy to wait a while for the ambulance to arrive and I had nowhere else I needed to be urgently, so we were able to complete the game after around a 40 minute delay. Incidentally, the home team coach went off and found a stretcher that looked like it was a Dad’s Army prop and they moved him off the pitch (his mum was there and gave the ok for that to happen- I wasn’t entirely happy with the idea personally). It turned out to be both a dislocation of the knee and a fractured tibia and that was with no contact from anyone else. Explains why I was a defender in my playing days, that shooting business is risky!