Former Leeds United midfielder Lee Bowyer doubted whether his career could continue just four games into his time at Elland Road.
Bowyer joined Leeds from Charlton Athletic - the club he now manages - in 1996 and he would go on to make more than 200 league appearances across seven years.
But there was a point in which his time with the whites, and indeed in football as a whole, was in doubt.
"I settled in quite well, I scored on my debut and we won the game and I settle in quite well," he recalled on Sky Sports' Football Show.
"But Howard Wilkinson took me there and we played Man United and then we got hammered about 4-0.
"I got an eye injury in that game and it wasn't good, I couldn't see out of my eye. It was more like a boxer's injury, the ball just rebounded and hit me in the face and that was that for maybe eight-to-ten weeks.
"I just remember being on the floor and the physio asking if I was okay but I literally couldn't see out of my eye.
He added: "I got that injury, I was out for a while. I was laying in the bed, I woke up after the anaesthetic and Howard Wilkinson had left.
"I was thinking 'Okay, I'm 19, I might be blind, I might not be able to play again and the manager who brought me here has left, where am I going to go from here?'
"That was only four or five games into my Leeds career."
Thankfully, Bowyer did regain his sight and he went on to enjoy a long career with Leeds before moving on to West Ham in 2003.
