George Dowell. The owner of Worthing Football Club.
From BBC Sport:
In 2010, Dowell was a student at Worthing College who loved playing football.
Aged 17, he was on the brink of the first team at Worthing, his hometown club, who were playing in the eighth tier of English football.
A trip to a fast-food restaurant with friends changed everything. Dowell was a front seat passenger in a car that was involved in an accident.
While the driver and two other passengers escaped with cuts and bruises, Dowell had to be cut out of the wreckage.
"I was told I would probably never walk again," Dowell, who suffered serious spinal injuries and has spent the past 13 years in a wheelchair said.
Five years after the accident that left him paralysed from the chest down, he bought the club he used to play for using his compensation to help financially-troubled Worthing.
"As much as I saved the club, the club saved me," he says.
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posted on 4/11/23
George Dowell. The owner of Worthing Football Club.
From BBC Sport:
In 2010, Dowell was a student at Worthing College who loved playing football.
Aged 17, he was on the brink of the first team at Worthing, his hometown club, who were playing in the eighth tier of English football.
A trip to a fast-food restaurant with friends changed everything. Dowell was a front seat passenger in a car that was involved in an accident.
While the driver and two other passengers escaped with cuts and bruises, Dowell had to be cut out of the wreckage.
"I was told I would probably never walk again," Dowell, who suffered serious spinal injuries and has spent the past 13 years in a wheelchair said.
Five years after the accident that left him paralysed from the chest down, he bought the club he used to play for using his compensation to help financially-troubled Worthing.
"As much as I saved the club, the club saved me," he says.
posted on 4/11/23
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