“It was his elbow. He landed on his elbow. I've just had a little joke with Andy. He went on and pulled off the best two headers of the game with an injured shoulder, arm, whatever it was.”

— Phil Brown (footballer)

26-Dec-2005, Radio Derby
Phil gives a definitive answer to which part of Andrew Davies' anatomy was injured - then talks himself out of it.

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