Gordon Brown Rugby Injury
Gordon brown died from non hodgkin lymphoma aged 53 in march 2001.
Gordon brown rugby injury. Photo by matt dunham wpa poolgetty images local caption martin johnsongordon brown. But when a kick to the head on the rugby pitch left the 16 year old gordon brown blind in his left eye his greatest fear was. For six months at the age of 16 he lay in edinburgh royal infirmary with his eyes covered for weeks.
1907 edt for a boy who loved sport and reading it was a painful blow. Forty three years after a rugby accident left gordon brown blind in one eye the identity of the man whose stray boot may have injured him has finally emerged. Gordon remembered being made to sprint up and down the terraces at ibrox until he was sick.
After missing three months of rugby he was selected for the british lions tour of new zealand 1977.