If there’s a lesson to be learned here, it’s that you should never use makeshift medical equipment.
The word “makeshift” should always make you uneasy in any context, but particularly when used in a medical context.
Ideally, if a player gets so badly hurt during a game that they couldn’t walk to the sidelines, they would be taken off the pitch in a stretcher, but not every club has a stretcher handy. That was apparently the case during the Donegal Intermediate reserve semi-final between Cloughaneely and Buncrana on Sunday.
SportsJOE reader John McGarvey was at the game and he informed us that the stretcher shortage became very noticeable when one player suffered a broken ankle and needed to be brought off the pitch for treatment. With no stretcher available, they took out a fold-up table from the kitchen to see if that would make an adequate substitute.
Remarkably, the table made it out onto the pitch before they came to the conclusion that it just wasn’t fit for the job and everyone did the sensible thing and waited for the ambulance to arrive.
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