05 May 2026 08:36:13
That is one hell of a facial injury, get well soon Morgan!
Coyr.

1.) 05 May 2026
05 May 2026 09:05:01
Yes, he will be feeling that today.

2.) 05 May 2026
05 May 2026 09:32:58
Half a packet of paracetamol, a double dark rum, and one of those funky new masks. He'll be okay for Thursday night, adrenaline will kick in prematch. ?

3.) 05 May 2026
05 May 2026 10:58:37
That's commitment!!!

4.) 05 May 2026
05 May 2026 12:34:34
A mere flesh wound, MGW. I once had 5 stitches across my right eyebrow from a head-butt I received arresting a nutter (!) at Nuthall Service Station on the A610 opposite the old Cinderhill Colliery. Mind you, I got off lightly because the bloke who did it had just killed his father-in-law with an axe.
I did a handover statement as soon as I'd got back to Strelley Police Station from QMC and reported for duty in the morning.


The shift Sgt decided I looked too frightening to go out on public patrol with a swollen eye and sent me on a prisoner escort to Wallsend.....
So, man up, Morgan, see ya Thursday, mare.
PS, the bloke was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, ended up at Rampton and I got 300 quid a stitch from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. ????

5.) 05 May 2026
05 May 2026 13:40:36
There were a couple of strange sequels to this calamitous incident...
I got a Chief Constable's commendation for arresting a dangerous armed man (he wasn't armed, luckily, as he'd chucked the axe away before he got to the Service Station).
I also got a complaint from a passing motorist and his wife, who kindly reported that they'd seen a Police Officer sitting astride a man who was covered in lots of blood and punching him repeatedly.

The last bit was true, but the blood was mostly his father-in-law's and mine...
Lastly, I ended up with two black eyes and was nicknamed "Chi Chi" for months afterwards...

6.) 05 May 2026
05 May 2026 14:08:35
Dedication to duty - thanks for your brave service, Stokey.

7.) 05 May 2026
05 May 2026 17:36:22
Thanks Buster, mate. Unfortunately, this was in the days before body armour and tasers, so it was hand to hand for several minutes. Never used my Police issue truncheon in 30 years of frontline service. Except to gain access to houses by smashing a window then using the strap to reach through to undo the latch.
I worked on the basis that if I was stronger than them I didn't need it and if I was weaker than them, they take it off me and beat me up with it .


I was born in Radford and grew up at Bestwood Park Estate and Bulwell, so I tended to forget Home Office self defence policy and just fight dirty if push came to shove, as they say .??

8.) 05 May 2026
05 May 2026 18:18:18
Took a whack on back of leg from one of those truncheons v Leicester, early 90s, in the Meadows.

My whole leg was black n blue the next day, n I could barely walk. Also got trampled by a police horse, back of away end v Sunderland, and I still got the scars from that 1.

Obviously, I was an innocent bystander on both occasions, officer.

9.) 05 May 2026
05 May 2026 18:36:04
Redstripe, it can happen mate! ??? ?? Collateral damage as the Americans say.

10.) 05 May 2026
05 May 2026 19:44:30
Stripe, police horses lol. One stood on my foot outside Villa Park a few years back. They threatened to arrest me for foul and abusive language. ? That was before they saw my purple bleeding foot. ? ?

11.) 06 May 2026
06 May 2026 10:53:38
RRH, mate, did they tell you to "hop it" ... sorry. As David Attenborough said "the only animal with a c*** on its back". ? ?
On a serious note, they are gentle creatures but intimidating, and can cause a lot of damage by their sheer size and weight. Every year of my service we had an "away day" at the deserted RAF base near Bingham RAF Newton. We worked with the Dog and Horse section on Public Order.
One of the scariest exercises was for us infantry to line up in full riot gear, facing forward, at another group of training officers throwing bricks and petrol bombs at us (we had shields and a fire extinguisher officer. They probably don't do it nowadays for health and safety reasons).


Anyway, two Sgts took turns standing behind the line whose job it was to pull a couple of officers by the shoulder backwards and inwards to create a gap in the line at the last second for half a dozen horses at the gallop to run through, then close the gap when they'd passed through....
I tell you, facing forward and hearing those horses approaching you from behind, and counting on your Sgts' timing, made one trump a bit.
The only untoward incident I saw during this particular exercise was when a horse was pulled up in front and promptly urinated on a few of the lads and lasses. Like a chuffing cascade. The hundreds of un-urinated-on people were, of course, doubled up laughing.

12.) 06 May 2026
06 May 2026 22:05:39
Wallsend, about a mile from me, Stokey.