Townsend, who gained 13 caps for England, mentioned that he did suppose it was unusual to see two rollers both facet of the pitch throughout the warm-up.
“I keep in mind pondering to myself, ‘I’ve by no means seen that earlier than in my profession, what are they doing?’ However we bought referred to as to warm-up. Did not suppose something of it,” he mentioned.
“The subsequent I noticed him was once I was actually beneath him and fortunately no critical injury. A few bumps and bruises however managed to stroll away unscathed, fortunately.”
Townsend, who has had quite a few setbacks with accidents throughout his profession, mentioned the curler incident was “definitley not going to cease me from persevering with”.
“They (his team-mates) had been very shocked that I continued the warm-up. They had been telling me to go to the physician,” he mentioned.
“It was fairly heavy, however I used to be capable of type of raise [it], drive it off me. So when it was utterly on me, I used to be getting crushed a bit bit.
“I used to be capable of get my left arm up and relieve a few of the stress, after which I used to be capable of get my team-mates round me who had been capable of raise it, and I used to be capable of squeeze out however at that second the place it was crushing my left leg, it was fairly terrifying, I need to say.”
Townsend was involved his ankle and left knee, which have each been operated on, can be broken within the incident.
He mentioned: “I believed, both my left ankle was going to snap or my left knee goes to snap. I believed I used to be achieved. I used to be very lucky that I used to be capable of hobble away and recuperate inside a couple of minutes.”
The midfielder made mild of the incident on Instagram, referencing one in every of his current posts during which he in contrast a sun-drenched Thai away journey with earlier visits to Stoke’s Bet365 Stadium.
He wrote: “It seems Stoke away wasn’t so unhealthy in any case.”