Premier League and Football League clubs offered free modification to protect players from potentially dangerous goalposts after horrific injury to Grimsby goalkeeper

Clubs are being offered peculiar covers to support players from perchance unsafe goalposts aft a goalkeeper suffered a horrific wounded which enactment him retired of enactment for much than 5 months.

All Premier League and EFL sides person been offered a escaped solution by a shaper pursuing a sickening incidental astatine a League Two lucifer that triggered a competition-wide alert.

Grimsby goalkeeper Jake Eastwood was stretchered disconnected aft catching his limb connected a triangle-shaped metallic bracket subsequently recovered to beryllium commonplace crossed the state and beyond.

The past 27-year-old slid into a station trying to support a header retired and was near with a ruptured patellar tendon. He underwent country and has not started a lucifer since the fixture, which took spot connected September 28, though helium has been connected the seat for the Mariners since March 1.

As Mail Sport revealed, a acrophobic PFA took up the lawsuit and flagged superior concerns. As a result, a survey was sent retired to find retired however galore clubs were utilizing the goals. The findings were that the bulk were doing so. 

While the posts successful question were manufactured by a institution called Harrod Sport, which supplies astir clubs, a rival firm, Net World Sports (FORZA), acceptable astir uncovering a solution and present believes it has travel up with the reply successful the signifier of a padded screen which fits implicit the bracket, wherever the goalpost meets the framework which keeps the nett successful spot connected the crushed and is described arsenic ‘raised metallic triangle’.

Each nine crossed the English crippled has been offered 4 of the covers escaped of charge. Net World Sports accidental they bash not interfere with VAR oregon extremity enactment technology.

Following the wounded Grimsby brag David Artell – who was forced to bring a 17-year-old keeper disconnected the seat – condemned the instrumentality progressive and suggested that a calamity had been avoided.

‘You can't person specified a crisp portion of metallic sticking retired close down the posts,’ helium told BBC Radio Humberside. ‘These goals are wide utilized but it's evidently a plan flaw due to the fact that that can't happen. We present suffer a goalkeeper for an extended play of clip due to the fact that of the plan of a goal.

‘If it's immoderate consolation it's his genu and not his head, due to the fact that it could person been perfectly disastrous.’

A spokesperson for Harrod Sport expressed his sympathy for Eastwood. He added that extremity and bracket met manufacture standards.

Robbie Hayter, of Net World Sports, said: ‘Once alert of the incident, we wanted to help. While the extremity successful question wasn’t ours, providing a solution was successful everyone’s champion interest. All goals that we proviso into stadiums comply to information standards. We are committed to innovation and continuously improving goalpost safety.’