See The Deep Cut of Stephen Ireland's Injury: This is Crazy

But Stephen Ireland is certainly a man. During the game against Hull on Saturday the combative Ireland certainly dished out plenty, but he was on the receiving end of a horrific tackle by Hull's Maynor Figueroa. Ireland struggled gamely on until half-time when the full extent of the injury was revealed, photographed and circulated across social media faster than a picture of an uninteresting dress worn to a wedding. Ireland expects to be out for three weeks, whilst no further action will be taken against his Ecuadorean attacker because he was given a yellow card during the game. As the Black Knight from Monty Python's Meaning Of Life might have said, "Tis but a scratch…"