'WE WERE ALL UNITED AT BLADES'
The Football League Paper|September 08, 2024
THERE'S never a good time to suffer a career-ending leg break, Basham but Chris takes comfort in the fact he was 35 when disaster struck.
Chris Dunlavy
'WE WERE ALL UNITED AT BLADES'

"I'm actually okay with it," insists the centre-back, who announced his retirement at the end of August, ten months after his left ankle grotesquely gave way during a Premier League match for Sheffield United against Fulham at Craven Cottage.

"If I was younger and something like this had happened, it would have been hard to come to terms with. I think I would have been pretty worried about the future, maybe scarred by what happened.

I don't know... I just think it would have been horrific.

"Don't get me wrong, it's still hard to take because I thought I would have carried on for a lot longer. But I've had a good career. I've got great memories. And it's not like there was a difficult decision to make it was obvious to me and everyone else that I was never going to play elite football again."

Basham has endured four surgeries since that fateful day in west London, with a fifth and hopefully final -operation to come at the end of this month.

"I knew it was bad when I did it but I just didn't think recovery would have taken this long," he admits.

"When they said 18 months I thought 'Well, maybe a year', but it took me so long to get walking again, absolutely ages. I still can't run, and I haven't worn a pair of boots since it happened.

"Obviously you miss playing and training. But it's the everyday things as well. Driving. Messing around with the kids in the back garden, playing a round of golf. I don't think people realise how tough it is when that stuff gets taken away.

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