A young boy was airlifted to hospital after a football training pole went through his neck.
Emergency services were called to the football fields in Stoke-on-Trent Sunday afternoon after the youngster was injured.
Fire crews attended the scene and had to cut the pole from the boy's neck before he could be airlifted to hospital by the Midlands Air Ambulance, reports Stoke-on-Trent Live.
The boy's condition has not been confirmed.
A Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman 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 the air ambulance."
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “We were called at 1.18pm on Saturday (17/8) 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.”
