Former Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse has revealed he almost lost his foot while playing for the Reds during the 2004/05 campaign.
That famous season will always be remembered for Liverpool's iconic Champions League comeback in Instanbul but for Cisse, it holds different memories.
The striker broke his leg against Blackburn Rovers in October 2004 and while he returned to play some role in the European victory, he's explained how he nearly lost his foot due to the severity of the injury.
"Yeah, I had a really bad fracture," Cisse told talkSPORT on Thursday.
"My bone snapped with one on top of the other, I don't know the exact medical terms. Basically, my blood circulation wasn't working to my foot.
"The doctor said to me 'Djib, I'm going to have to reduce the fracture' so I was high, high, high, so I didn't know what he was talking about, 'just do what you have to do'.
"He counted to three and he pulled my leg. Everything went fine, I remember after him telling me 'Djib, do you remember this?' and I said 'yeah' and I was asking why he said it.
"He said 'your blood circulation, your foot wasn't elongated. After 30 [minutes] to an hour, we would have had to amputate it'. So yeah it was very serious."
