David beckham no1? This whole list is a joke.

S.Holla.J, Huddersfield, England

What about juan arango, the real mallorca player, who was almost killed by sevilla captain javi navarro, navarro's knee collided with arango's face at full speed. Arango proceeded to swallow his tongue and had to have his cheekbone rebuilt. I can't believe beckham was in at number 1, that isn't even an injury, the list was high quality up until I read that, but beckham's inclusion has ruined it. Also what about Djbril Cisse?

Barry Caldwell, Belfast, Northern Ireland

the fulham forward Mcbride blowing his knee out as he turned and scored, and falling to the floor in pain before the ball hit the net wasnt good either

RIchard J, London,

the torn hamstring of Derick Redmond in the 400m at the olympics, and his dad coming onto the track and carrying him down the final straight while fighting off the officials so that his son could get a standing avation still brings tears to my eyes

RIchard F, London,

What about the Beaning of Tony Conigliaro of the boston Red Sox. Square in the Face-Eye. He was never the same after thet and eventually died earky in life due to that beaning.

Mike Wilson, Lowell, Massachusetts.

What about Cech's injury against reading, surely that shold be in the top 10?

Adi, London,

Where's Djibril Cisse? He broken the same leg 2 times

Zamarrenho, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Being an avid Villa fan for 20 years the most 'hideous' injuries during my supporting years have happened to the unfortunate Brian Little (premature retirement) and Gary Shaw (Lineker wouldn't have got his near record equaling tally hadn't it been for Shaw's injury)...with these two fully fit and in a team with Mortimer, Withe, Cowans and the like we maybe would have won more league titles in the 80's instead of being humiliatingly relegated 6 years after being Champions of Europe??

Steve Phillips, Edinburgh, Scotland

Borje Salming, a Toronto ice-hockey legend, was accidentally trampled in the face while lying on the ice to defend his goal. Slightly nastier than the figure-skating accident at #13

Henric Hansson, Sydney, Australia

Wasn't there a long-jumper who broke his leg as he took off and was committed to the jump, then landed in the sand with his broken leg a-flapping?

robert, london, uk

Re #20

Here in Iceland we had a very similar incidents a few years ago. A handball player had a very strange and amusing growth on his nose. It kept on getting bigger and bigger and before the doctors had determined what was going on the player looked a little bit like the elephant man.

The reason for this turned out to be that in a collision he had with an opponent a fragment of tooth from the opponent had got stuck in his nose.

The next time they met in a match he gave the opponent his tooth fragment back in a gift casing.

Egill, Kópavogur, Iceland

Beckham at #1 is a shame... how can he be there after seeing Malarchuck it's a joke !!!! And not to say one leg break is better or worse than another but how come Cisse is not on the list... not just one leg break that could have needed amputation but a second one also just before a world cup... the only light is that Cisse made it back to the European Cup final in 2005 and scored a penalty... Cisse YNWA

Chris, Sydney, Australia

what about the attack on nancy kerrigan?

Colin Maguire, Monaghan,

What about Eddie Large the 'comedian' who was a promising player at Man City. Sadly he is reputed to have tripped over a tramline at Blackpool and suffered a career ending injury.

Ivor Leonard, Hobart, Australia

What sort of research have you guys done for this piece? How could you leave out F1's most hapless driver, Taki Inoue? In 1995 at Monaco, having crashed out, he was subsequently RUN OVER by the course car. Fortunately he recovered to race the following week in Hungary where the same thing happened again when Inoue was trying to put out a fire in his stricken Footwork and was hit by a marshall's car!

jonathan anthony, london,

In 1975, an Australian Rules Footballer, Neil Sasche, playing for Footscray in the VFL ( Victorian Football League, now AFL), ran headfirst into a pack of oncoming players. In what was his only second match for Foostcray, tragedy struck when Sachse was left a Quadriplegic after accidentally clashing with a Fitzroy player in the Round 2 match.
In 1994, Neil and Dawn Ferrett founded an organisation to find a cure for spinal cord injury. It was originally known as the 'Spinal Research Fund of Australia', however late 2006 saw the renaming of the organisation to the Neil Sachse Foundation.
Since the beginning of the organisation, it has raised over $2 million which has funded a research project at Flinders University that proved that nerve fibres in the spine can regenerate past the site of the injury and return some function.

mark, wakefield, west yorkshire

As far as I remember a few years ago the goalkeeper Busquets of FC Barcelona & Spain missed either the WC or the EuroCup after rescueing his little son, by cathcing a hot iron with bare hands falling right upon the kid. Heroic move, silly accident.

Csire Balazs, Budapest, Hungary

Clint Malarchuk should be number 1.

bill, coventry,

Come on guys, nothing gets anywhere near to Niki Laudas crash at the Nurbergring in 1976! The guy was given the last rights twice and still returned in time to run James Hunt all the way to the wire!

Vic, nice, France

what about lua lua twisting his angle after scoring against Arsenal?

Mlo, portsmouth, england

Regarding number 40, why is this injury, a freak accident through no fault of his own to one of the most pleasant guys you could ever meet, included when you state in your opening that some injuries won't be included due to lack of taste? Trevor Franklin was lucky to walk again, playing international cricket was a near miracle.

Greg, Barking, England