AS their left-back Casey Linsell lay on the turf unable to be moved, so much in pain was he and so worried were all who could see his injuries, Leverstock Green officials rang 999 several times to summon an ambulance.
None came. Finally five minutes before midnight – two-and-a-half hours after the FA Cup replay against Edgware Town had been abandoned – a doctor rang from Watford General Hospital with instructions on how to move the player.
Officials and a playing colleague who had stayed with him, helped the player to his grandparents’ car and they drove him the 10 miles t...