Poole team manager Neil Middleditch said: “The operation on the heel will take place in the morning. I’m not sure what they are going to do with the hip yet. They’ll have a look at the morning and decide what to do. The shoulder injury is the same sort of problem as Darcy had. He has some fractures in his hip and they’ll be looking at that in the morning.

For the first three months he had no feeling or movement whatsoever in his legs, apart from a few toe movements, but gradually movement came slowly to his left leg, and now he has around 50% use. Unfortunately, he can’t do much with the right leg at all, in fact in his words, it’s useless! He pretty well relies on his wheelchair to get around. Things haven’t improved at all in the last twelve months or more and he now admits that he’d need a miracle cure to be able to walk again.