Footballers with "disabilities"

[Spurger King]

Didn't Andy Goram have schizophrenia? I vaguely remember the chant "there's only two Andy Gorams"

 

[Acid]

Damian Duff - Down's Syndrome

 

[fieryjack]

Campbell suffers from stupidness. His agent gave it to him and couldve cured him but didnt bother. So he suffers to this day.
Apparently hell be in the Sky commentary box this very afternoon or so the word on the street says.

 

[CosmicHotspur]

Hector Castro - El Manco

See my first post.

 

[CosmicHotspur]

22 year old striker Alex Sanchez, now with Teruel in the Spanish League after spending three seasons with Zaragoza, was born with only one hand, the first professional footballer with that particular disability. He made his first team debut in 2009.

 

[RobinLeonard]

Neville Southall and Andy Reid both managed good careers despite being... weighty.

 

[Legend10]

Neil Harris (Millwall) had testicular cancer.

Wasn't Abidals tumour non malignant?

 

[lilywhitecurtis]

Isn't there a mention in The Glory Game book of a Spurs Youth whom was deaf?

Unfortunately he didn't get past his first year.

 

[lilywhitecurtis]

Garrinchea: : his spine was deformed, his right leg bent inwards and his left leg six centimeters shorter and curved outwards

Didn't Garrinchea claim that this actually worked to his advantage?

Surely he's the best case of a disabled player being a success? He's one of the best ever Brazilian players.

 

[Caco]

Paul McGrath, cronic alcoholic and a set of knees worse than Ledley.

 

[CosmicHotspur]

Isn't there a mention in The Glory Game book of a Spurs Youth whom was deaf?

Unfortunately he didn't get past his first year.

That was defender Bobby Scarth who played for us in the 1970s and he was last heard of (no pun intended) coaching the deaf and hard of hearing.

He was the son of Jimmy Scarth who was an inside forward at Tottenham from 1948-1952 and held the record for scoring the fastest hat trick in a game for over 50 years.

Also profoundly deaf were Cliff Bastin who was an Arsenal legend from 1929 to 1947 and Philip Hagan of Raith Rovers.