Liverpool's former head of medical services has recalled the bloody incident that required him to stitch Steven Gerrard's penis together during an important FA Cup encounter in 2014.
The ex-captain Reds' injured his penis during a match against Bournemouth in the FA Cup six years ago, an injury that unfortunately required immediate attention.
Then match-day medical co-ordinator Andrew Massey, who eventually went on to become the team's head medic, attended to Gerrard's injury, recalling in a recent interview that nowhere in his years of medical training did he learn about what to do in that specific situation.
"I was trying to think back to my medical training and nowhere does it teach you to how to stitch a penis.
"I thought, 'I don't want the first penis I've stitched to be Steven Gerrard's' - but it was."
Gerrard left the field for treatment, and returned to complete the full 90 minutes as Liverpool advanced through to the next round of the competition following a 2-0 victory.
The ex-Liverpool skipper has himself looked back on the incident before, doing so in his autobiography, in which he wrote: "Ouch. I hoped I wasn't saying goodbye to an old friend.
"I could tell he (Massey) wasn't feeling too comfortable about it either. He did a good job. I felt no pain as he put in the stitches, four as he predicted."
While the injury he sustained was serious, the match was believed to end in laughs in the Liverpool dressing room, where Gerrard's colleagues could not hide their amusement.
