![]() ![]() I’ll always have a spot in my heart for the city, the state, the fans and the club. But that’s their decision, they wanted to take a different route. I was really disappointed that things didn’t work out the way I wanted to as far as Kerala is concerned. The feeling is mutual, they’ve supported me and I’ve given them my love. “I have great relationship with the Kerala fans, always have and always will. But even as the medical team of the Blasters worked on his rehabilitation, the club severed ties with him on realising that he would most certainly miss a part of the upcoming Indian Super League season, which will start on 29 September and will go on till mid-December. Hume got injured in February and spent the next few months recuperating in Kochi. Fans of Blasters have come to address him as Humettan (brother in Malayalam). The injury also cost him - cruelly - a spot in the Kerala Blasters FC team, the same club where, over two stints, he became more beloved than even players like former England goalkeeper David James. This represents the hardships and the struggles I have gone through to help my family get to where it is.” It’s something that I will have to show my kids and grand-kids if they want to know what happened to my skull. If you get a new dog, you carry a picture of it. It’s like if you buy a new house, you take a photo of it. The videos and photos are still there, but I haven’t looked at them in years, to be honest. When it first happened, I used to sit and watch it over and over again just to find out why it happened and if there was anything I could have done to change it. ![]() “I’ve got photographs, and videos of the injury. Hume admits that the first few years after the incident, he obsessively watched footage of the injury. And as anyone who’s seen me playing in the ISL can tell you, I do not pull out of any challenges with my head. I moved on, I was back playing next season and it was as if nothing had happened. I had a great circle of friends and family. “For me, it was the same as a player who has broken a bone or broken a leg. It obviously hurt,” Hume says while breaking into a little laugh. You get these challenges every week in football, and every game. The head injury - which occurred when Sheffield United defender Chris Morgan caught Hume, playing for Barnsley back then, with an elbow while defending a long ball in November 2008 - still dominates conversation a decade later. ISL transfers: Roy Krishna joins Odisha FC on one-year deal Bartholomew Ogbeche's Hyderabad FC future in doubt ISL summer transfers 2023-24: All confirmed deals so far ![]()
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