Lap dancer injures footballer on stag night

A YOUNG footballer is on the treatment table - after being crocked by a stripper's stiletto heel.

Gary Kelly was ruled out of his team's pre-season friendlies after suffering a burst mouth. The Muirkirk Juniors star was caught by a stripper's sharp heel after sitting too close to the stage at a lapdancing club.

The blonde dancer in the Newcastle club For Your Eyes Only caught him as she swung round in a pole dance.

Gary, 20, of Cumnock, in Ayrshire, said: 'I was in Newcastle for a stag weekend with about 18 of my pals.

'We were out on the town on the Saturday night when my mates stopped at this lapdancing club and decided they wanted to go in.

'I wasn't too bothered about that but didn't want to be a party pooper and just went with the flow.

'One of the girls was going through her routine and I was sitting having a beer as she was doing her act.

'Then in one of her more energetic moves she swung her leg round and her high heel hit me on the mouth.'

'It wasn't particularly sore but it did dent my pride. My mouth was bleeding and some of it went on my good shirt so I had to go and get changed.'

What Gary didn't realise was that the his pals were to blame.

Team-mate David Kay, 21 - the brother-in-law of the stag, Robin Miekle's - explained what happened.

He said: 'Most of us were sitting on couches at the front of the stage but Gary was on a chair.

'One of the girls asked for his chair to be moved back because it was too close to the stage' We did that but when Gary went to the loo before the act started we moved his chair back to where it was for a laugh and when he came back he didn't notice.

'Unfortunately that was how he got a kick in the mush from the lap dancer. It was purely accidental.'

Muirkirk coach Pat Lopez said: 'I'm down to 11 players but Gary will hopefully get back soon.

'He and David told me they were away for a paint-balling weekend - some paint balling.'

Gary joins a list of accident-prone footballers and is not the first to suffer an off-field injury because of flying footwear.

In 2003, David Beckham suffered a gash above his left eye after Sir Alex Ferguson kicked a football boot at him during a dressing room row