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Monday, 10th November, 2003, 21:25 GMT

Freak defender hurt in 'Wolves accident'

Paul Butler of Wolverhampton Wanderers broke both legs in a freak accident at his Witton home today, and has been pulled from the Irish women's squad scheduled to face the Finnish women's team on Saturday.
As was reported by Reuters, Butler was leaning over to pick up his TV remote when he broke both legs.

BUTLER: Accident happened near his recliner

The ambulance crew were there in 2 minutes but got lost on the way to the Birmingham General Hospital.

Later one of the ambulance crew later confessed, "Sure, we missed a turn, but it was awful hearing Butler's agonising screams when we stopped to check the map just outside Bognor Regis, Croydon, 

tv remote
The remote as found on the carpet

Norwich, Pwllheli, Darlington, Perth and Ripon."  

Paul Butler was signed from Sunderland in 2000 for a fee of 1 million, and prior to that he was on loan to the Club who should have known better.

He
quickly bullied his way to new club captain and went on to establish himself as the sap of the defence, scoring some lucky goals along the way as Wolves steamrolled towards what the Club thought was promotion, but as we all know that failed thanks to Steve Bruce.

Last season Butler took some stick, and with being booed off at home Reading he lost his captains arm band, and along with that his first team place. Wolves were stuck with him though.

Press reports
talked about him sobbing over the situation, but until this accident he was back commanding a regular first team place.

Birmingham striker Cristophe Dugarry
Job well done:  Butler shows off his follow-through

This appears to have been a terrible freak accident
Streaky, We-Are-Blues forum

Wolves manager Dave Jones likened the accident to some sort of voodoo. "Apparently when you nail Dugarry you've got to expect things to start going terribly wrong in your life."  "Me, I'd stay home for the rest of the season and re-join the squad when we're preparing for the Nationwide next May."


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