At the start of the season Pies presented its Silly Injuries XI celebrating the footballers who had managed to rule themselves out of contention in bizarre circumstances. We can now add to that list Dundee’s Derek Lyle. The striker somehow managed to fall through a glass table in his home which means he will miss his side’s Scottish Cup quarter-final against Queen of the South.
Lyle required 16 stitches in his stomach after the incident. He said: “I was messing about with one of my pals when we tripped on a rug and I went through the coffee table. Thankfully there was no internal damage as it could’ve been a lot worse. The pain is going away and hopefully I’ll get the stitches out on Monday.” So the pain is going away and presumably the pane is too.