Hull City midfielder Ryan Mason has spoken of his collision with Chelsea defender Gary Cahill earlier this season.

It was only five weeks ago, some three months after his accident at Stamford Bridge in January, that the full horror of what he endured was explained to him by the Hull City doctor.

"He said there was a moment shortly after I arrived at the hospital, I think maybe just after I'd had a CT scan, that I was what they call 'unresponsive'," says Mason.

"They acted very quickly and within minutes I was in surgery. But that was a life-threatening situation and it was a shock to hear that. The doc, to be fair to him, had waited for the right moment to talk me through the accident and the operation. Any earlier and I don't think I would have had the capacity to deal with it."