Soccer icon Steven Gerrard once had to have his penis sewn back together after a gruesome injury, and the doctor who did it just shared the wince-inducing story
- WARNING: This story is not for the squeamish.
- Liverpool FC's former doctor recalled the time he once had to sew Steven Gerrard's penis back together after a match.
- The Reds were playing Bournemouth in the 2014 FA Cup when Gerrard injured his genitals in a challenge with Harry Arter.
- "Stevie came over to me at the end of the match and said 'Doc, you are going to have to have a look at this,'" Andrew Massey told The Scottish Sun. "I looked down and saw blood everywhere."
- Gerrard required four stitches in his penis, which he said in his autobiography his teammates found "hilarious."
- "A bunch of footballers are the last people you want discussing the state of your sliced penis."
Liverpool FC's former doctor recalled the time he once had to sew club and England legend Steven Gerrard's penis back together after a match.
The Reds were playing Bournemouth in the fourth round of the 2014 FA Cup when Gerrard injured his genitals in a challenge with Harry Arter.
Gerrard played played on with the injury for the rest of the game, before bringing it to the attention of Andrew Massey, who was Liverpool's first-team medic at the time, after the final whistle.
"Stevie came over to me at the end of the match and said 'Doc, you are going to have to have a look at this,'" Massey told The Scottish Sun.
"I looked down and saw blood everywhere and thought, 'Wow, that must be really sore.'
"I was trying to think back to my medical training and nowhere in my training does it teach you 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.'"
Massey then cleared a room a Bournemouth's Dean Court stadium before stitching up Gerrard's injury. The former Liverpool captain, who is now the manager of Scottish side Rangers, praised Massey's handy work.
"I took off my shorts and underpants and had one last look. Ouch. I hoped I wasn't saying goodbye to an old friend," he said, according the The Scottish Sun.
"I got a jab first and then, careful not to look at what he was doing, I could tell he wasn't feeling too comfortable about it either.
"Doc Massey must have wished that he could have stayed at home treating the Academy kids' cuts and bruises. I didn't talk much, though. I wanted him fully concentrated.
"He did a good job. I felt no pain as he put in the stitches – four as he had predicted – and I walked back into the dressing room."
Liverpool won the match 2-0, but unsurprisingly, the victory wasn't the main topic of conversation in the dressing after, as Gerrard revealed in his autobiography.
"All the lads were falling about laughing," he said. "We had won, the atmosphere was good and they thought it was hilarious. I got zero sympathy from any of the lads.
"You can imagine how many jokes about inches and stitches, penis size and my future performances at home with Alex. I might have smiled but I could have throttled the lot of them.
"A bunch of footballers are the last people you want discussing the state of your sliced penis."
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