Tom Parsons has revealed that he could have lost his leg following his horror injury five years ago.
The former Mayo midfielder suffered extensive damage to his left knee in particular as a result of a freak incident when playing against Galway in the 2018 Connacht Championship, leaving him with a dislocated knee, three ruptured ligaments and a tear on another, as well as calf and hamstring damage.
It was feared - if not widely expected - that Parsons would never play again but he made it back to feature in the following year’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Dublin and retired after the 2020 All-Ireland final loss to the same opposition having come off the bench in that year’s semi-final win over Tipperary in what proved to be his last appearance for the county.
