AFC Telford player Sean Evans vows to return

AFC Telford United winger Sean Evans has vowed to return to football after suffering a horrific broken leg - despite initially being told he would never play again.

Evans, 22, fractured the tibia and fibula in his left leg during the Bucks' pre-season friendly with Wolves in August.

He has already been ruled out for the whole of this season but is determined to resurrect his career.

A doctor at the Princess Royal Hospital told him the day after the injury that he should give up the game, but the former Shrewsbury and Manchester United wide man has drawn comfort from the support and advice of team-mates and others in the game.

"The doctor said he was advising me not to play football again and told me I needed to understand how serious the injury is," Evans recalled. "I just sat back and said I will play again. It's the only thing I know, the only thing I can do really.

"I think he has to cover his back - everyone I've spoken to since has said I will play again. I spoke to a few players who've had the same injury. One of them was Damian Reeves, who was at Telford for a while last season.

"He said he was back after 11 months. He played with a metal rod in his leg for nine months then had an operation to have it taken out."

Evans still finds it hard to think about the fateful Tuesday evening that he suffered the injury

"The good thing about it is that I can't remember the pain," he said. "If I could it would haunt me for the rest of my life. The worst feeling was my foot - it felt like it was going to explode and my leg felt like jelly.

"I'd never done anything like it before, the only other thing I've broken is my toe. People say the shock takes the pain away but it really doesn't."

By Chris Hudson