A boy was airlifted to Alder Hey Children's Hospital after being impaled during a game of football.
Emergency services were called to a playing field on August 18 after a football training pole struck through his neck on a spike from the pole.
The fire service had to cut the pole before he was taken to Alder Hey by air ambulance, reports Stoke-on-Trent Live.
A spokesperson for West Midlands Ambulance Service said the boy was treated at the scene in Fegg Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent and flown to the children's hospital in a stable condition.
They said: “We were called at 1.18pm on Saturday to reports of a patient who been impaled by a metal spike at the bottom of a plastic pole on a playing field near to Oxford Road in Fegg Hayes, Stoke on Trent.
"One ambulance, a paramedic officer and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Staffordshire attended the scene. On arrival, ambulance crews discovered one patient, a boy who had been impaled.
"The boy, who was conscious and in a stable condition, was treated for a neck injury before being airlifted to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital by air ambulance.”
A Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said: "Crews from Sandyford have been called to a football field off Chell Heath Road, Fegg Hayes to assist colleagues from West Midlands Ambulance Service with a boy with a spike from a football training pole in his neck.
"The pole was cut and the boy flown to hospital by Air Ambulance."
