Shock after footy king-hit

By Rob Shaw
Updated May 22 2014 - 10:00am, first published May 19 2014 - 11:19pm
Bridport reserves player Steve McKillop received multiple facial injuries in the NEFU match against the East Coast Swans.  Picture: SCOTT GELSTON
Bridport reserves player Steve McKillop received multiple facial injuries in the NEFU match against the East Coast Swans. Picture: SCOTT GELSTON

A FORMER premiership captain, best-and-fairest winner and umpire says he will quit football after a sickening incident in a game on Saturday left him with two fractured cheekbones, a broken eye socket, broken jawbone, fractured sinus bone and facing major dental work.

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