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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Keifer MacDonald

Liverpool goalkeeper forced to retire at 26 after bizarre injury doing the ironing

On this day in 1994, Liverpool signed goalkeeper Michael Stensgaard from Hvidovre.

Despite failing to make an appearance under Roy Evans during his two seasons at the club, the Dane would write his name into Reds folklore for sustaining one of the strangest injuries of any Liverpool player past or present.

Arriving at Anfield from his native Denmark in the summer of 1994, Stensgaard was initially tasked with serving as David James' understudy. However, his stint on Merseyside was derailed after he dislocated his shoulder - when using an ironing board in the months after his arrival.

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