Help, please!!

[securespark]

Can anyone remember the footballer (was he S American? Did he play for Portsmouth/Southampton??) who was in the paper after a crash left him in a coma with an amputated leg?

I'm trying to locate the story on the interwebbything.

 

[mlb3c]

how long ago did this happen?

 

[securespark]

few weeks?

 

[Gary_M]

Silva perhaps? (now dubbed Long John Silva apparently)

 

[mlb3c]

http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,6751,00.html


this?

 

[bethrob99]

http://www.news24.com/News24/Sport/Soccer/0,6119,2-9-840_2008314,00.html

Try this

 

[Nige F]

Onechop.......now called oneleg .ps. "Long"---wasn`t John Silver`s name because of hiss missing leg ........it was because of his Other Leg

 

[securespark]

Thanks, guys! Much appreciated. I spent ages Googling, but could not find it.