7. Terry Butcher’s cut head against Sweden



With the health and safety laws around these days, the sight of a player with a blood-splattered head is unlikely to be seen on a football field again.

Terry Butcher entered folklore after helping England reach the 1990 World Cup finals when he was bloodied, but unbowed in Sweden.

Needing a point to qualify for Italia ‘90, England saw Butcher suffer a head wound early in the game, which was hastily stitched up and bandaged by the physios.

As happens in these situations, the ball then seemed to be attracted to captain Butcher, which reopened the wound all over his shirt as England battled to a 0-0 draw.

Butcher revealed: “I’d have never have walked off, and Bobby Robson knew that if he’d have taken me off I’d have killed him.”

9. Cesc Fabregas scores a penalty with a broken leg



Fabregas had been a doubt for Arsenal’s crucial 2010 Champions League quarter-final with Barcelona because a bruised leg suffered in a challenge with Birmingham’s Craig Gardner.

But worse was to come for the Spanish midfielder after he was fouled by his future club colleague Carles Puyol in the 85th-minute of the clash, with Barca leading the first leg 2-1 at the Emirates.

Puyol was red-carded and Fabregas stepped up to fire home the equalising penalty before collapsing in a heap.

He was stretchered off and was later revealed to be suffering from a broken leg.

Afterwards, he said: “I took the penalty quite strongly and then went to get the ball and after that I couldn’t walk any more. I don't know whether I did it then or when I was fouled for the penalty.”

There was even some suggestion that his leg may have been broken in the challenge with Gardner a week earlier.

Fabregas said: “Yes, it's the same spot, but I didn't go into the game against Barca thinking “My leg’s broken."

11. Curt Schilling won Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS on a bloody ankle. Before the game, he had a crude surgery where a tendon in his ankle was sutured to his ankle tissue