Another player has neck injury
PA Auckland A young Taupo man has become the seventh football player to suffer neck injury in a match this season. A timber worker, Philip Laijpold, married, in his early 20s, was playing for Taupo Warriors against a Tokoroa league team on Wednesday when the accident happened. According to his team coach, John Manning, Laijpold was tackled, then picked up, up-ended, and driven into the ground. As he lay unconscious on the ground, a linesman stopped others from moving
him until ambulancemen arrived. He was taken to Tokoroa Hospital, then to Waikato Hospital, and finally was transferred to Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, during the night, where his condition yesterday was described as stable. Doctors could not say yesterday whether he would be paralysed. His injury brings the number of broken necks in the month-old playing season to the same number as for all of last year. The Tokoroa police are inquiring into the circumstances of the injury.
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