National League North & South

‘Jammy’ Jack is on the med

Suffering excruciating pain and with both heavily bandaged arms hoisted up in slings, Jack Turner sat up in his hospital bed wondering whether he’d even brush his teeth properly again, let alone palm away 100mph leather footballs whistling towards him!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 June 2023

By Jon Couch

SUFFERING excruciating pain and with both heavily bandaged arms hoisted up in slings, Jack Turner sat up in his hospital bed wondering whether he’d even brush his teeth properly again, let alone palm away 100mph leather footballs whistling towards him!
Turner, a heating and gas engineer by trade, thought his world had fallen apart after horrific accident at work led to him being scalded by 80C water, severely burning both of his hands and forearms.
But after staging a remarkable three-week recovery, which even left his nurses bewildered, the 30-year-old says he feels as ‘fit as...

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