I saw Everton hero's sickening injury up close - thankfully he would bounce back

You’ve got to take the rough with the smooth in football and fortunes can quickly turn as poor Bryan Oviedo found out playing for Everton a decade ago today.

This correspondent wasn’t fortunate enough to have been present the previous month when Oviedo’s 86^th minute strike handed Everton their first away win over Manchester United since the Premier League’s opening week back in August 1992 but, covering the game for our new Sunday edition, I had an up close view of his sickening injury at The Lamex Stadium. Along with ECHO colleagues Greg O’Keeffe and Phil Kirkbride who were sat in a different row to myself – media interest in the FA Cup fourth round tie ensured we were all in overspill sections among the home fans with laptops on our knees rather than in the Press Box as 6,913 spectators crammed into Stevenage’s tiny ground – the horrible moment played out in front of our eyes.

Visiting Evertonians mocked their hosts with chants of “You’re just a s*** Precky Cables” when they arrived at the modest venue in Hertfordshire to face a club who had made their Football League debut just three-and-a-half years earlier but Blues weren’t in the mood for joking after Oviedo’s career-changing moment. Everton – who would triumph 4-0 – were already one-nil up through the first of Steven Naismith’s two goals just five minutes in when the full-back hurt himself.

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Oviedo stretched for the ball to make what appeared to be a routine challenge on Stevenage midfielder Simon Heslop after 16 minutes but a rainstorm an hour before the 5:30pm kick-off had softened the pitch and the