Lee Mack gives health update as he shares reason he’s not playing at Soccer Aid<\/a><\/p>\nClose ups from the camera before he left the pitch showed Tony appeared to be in severe pain having gestured for assistance from the physio team.<\/p>\n
While the nature of the injury has not been confirmed, Tony was struggling to walk off the pitch.<\/p>\n
Commentator Sam Matterface later disclosed a worrying comment from Bellew to medics.<\/p>\n
He said the former boxing champ had told them “something went bang and I heard it go”.<\/p>\n
Fellow commentator Jason Manford remarked: “That’s not good.”<\/p>\n
Tony was already injured before starting the game.<\/p>\n
Coach Harry Redknapp revealed on the Off Air podcast with Jane Garvey and Fi Glover that the boxer had sustained a groin injury during training.<\/p>\n
“We give up our time, free of charge, and come and enjoy it to raise as much money as we can,” said Redknapp.<\/p>\n
“Tony Bellew, ex-world champion, he’s just decided to boot a ball without even warming up and just tore his groin.<\/p>\n
“He’s so tough he’ll probably play on with it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boxing champ was forced to leave the game due to a painful-looking injury shortly after it beganWorld…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-187207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114689259800418404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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World XI’s Tony Bellew (centre) reacts as he is carried off after going down injured during Soccer Aid for UNICEF 2025 at Old Trafford, Manchester. <\/p>\n