Townsend, who won 13 caps for England, said that helium did deliberation it was unusual to spot 2 rollers either broadside of the transportation during the warm-up.
"I retrieve reasoning to myself, 'I've ne'er seen that earlier successful my career, what are they doing?' But we got called to warm-up. Didn't deliberation thing of it," helium said.
"The adjacent I saw him was erstwhile I was virtually underneath him and thankfully nary superior damage. A mates of bumps and bruises but managed to locomotion distant unscathed, luckily."
Townsend, who has had galore setbacks with injuries during his career, said the roller incidental was "definitley not going to halt maine from continuing".
"They (his team-mates) were precise amazed that I continued the warm-up. They were telling maine to spell to the doctor," helium said.
"It was rather heavy, but I was capable to benignant of assistance [it], unit it disconnected me. So erstwhile it was wholly connected me, I was getting crushed a small bit.
"I was capable to get my near limb up and relieve immoderate of the pressure, and past I was capable to get my team-mates astir maine who were capable to assistance it, and I was capable to compression retired but astatine that infinitesimal wherever it was crushing my near leg, it was rather terrifying, I indispensable say."
Townsend was acrophobic his ankle and near knee, which person some been operated on, would beryllium damaged successful the incident.
He said: "I thought, either my near ankle was going to drawback oregon my near genu is going to snap. I thought I was done. I was precise fortunate that I was capable to hobble distant and retrieve wrong a fewer minutes."
The midfielder made airy of the incidental connected Instagram, referencing 1 of his caller posts successful which helium compared a sun-drenched Thai distant travel with erstwhile visits to Stoke's Bet365 Stadium.
He wrote: "It turns retired Stoke distant wasn't truthful atrocious aft all."
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