{"id":263509,"date":"2026-09-19T22:19:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/andros-townsend-run-over-by-pitch-roller-during-thai-thescore\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:19:50","slug":"andros-townsend-run-over-by-pitch-roller-during-thai-thescore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/andros-townsend-run-over-by-pitch-roller-during-thai-thescore\/","title":{"rendered":"Andros Townsend run over by pitch roller during Thai | theScore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"Article content\" id=\"article-content\">\n<p>Former Premier League winger Andros Townsend appeared to escape serious injury in a freak incident ahead of a Thai League match Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old, who now plays for Thai club PT Prachuap, was in a passing circle with his teammates at Tinsulanon Stadium when he appeared to chase the ball into the path of a pitch roller being driven by a staffer. Townsend&#8217;s left leg then got pinned under the machine before the driver quickly jumped out and began attempting to lift it off him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-segment--embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Crazy Scenes as Andros Townsend gets ran over by a Roller!<\/p>\n<p>Luckily he wasn\u2019t badly hurt afterwards, could\u2019ve ended soo much worse<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Thai League <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EGI2jGfK6r\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EGI2jGfK6r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh (@ayooo2772) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ayooo2772\/status\/2101375364060922342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 19, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The former England international, who started in his first two games for Prachuap, later came off the bench with a minute to play in the team&#8217;s 3-0 win over Pattani FC.<\/p>\n<p>After coming up with Tottenham&#8217;s academy, Townsend played 15 years in the Premier League before leaving for Turkey&#8217;s Antalyaspor in 2024. He also scored three goals in 15 caps for England. Townsend spent his first year in Thailand last season as a member of Kanchanaburi Power but left the club following its relegation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/epl\/news\/3603441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Premier League winger Andros Townsend appeared to escape serious injury in a freak incident ahead of a Thai League match Saturday. The 35-year-old, who now plays for Thai club PT Prachuap, was in a passing circle with his teammates at Tinsulanon Stadium when he appeared to chase the ball into the path of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}