'Their faces went pale' - Rami Shaaban and the accident that changed his Arsenal career

It was Christmas Eve, 2002, and for Rami Shaaban, everything was great.

Only a half year before he had been perched on the seat for Swedish first division side Djurgardens, yet now he was a piece of Arsene Wenger's Arsenal crew and had quite recently kept clean sheets in the Champions League and the north London derby.

His mom, Tuula, had traveled to England to praise his first Christmas in London - every one of that was left was to finished one last instructional meeting before the celebrations could begin.

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Yet, in about a couple of moments, everything changed.

"There was out of nowhere this enormous detonation," Shaaban talked, solely to Goal. "It seemed like a shin cushion had broken or something."

However, it wasn't a shin cushion that had snapped, it was Shaaban's correct leg. He had cracked both the tibia and fibula bones and his season was finished.

"It was Martin Keown," said the 44-year-old. "It's not astonishing perhaps that it was him, however he was in my group. It was only an oddity mishap.

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