A footballer’s wife saved his life when he had a stroke giving him the chance to build a new life as a Paralympic sports coach.
Chris Darch, 47, is now paralysed down his left side and in a wheelchair after a stroke doctors didn’t think he would survive.But just two years after the devastating brain bleed the determined sportsman is coaching disability sport.
Former Fort William FC manager Chris was playing in a charity match when he was hit on the side of the head. He shook off the injury and thought nothing more of it.
But he recalled: “That night I was in the kitchen making my wife a cup of tea and I stumbled. I fell back and hit a cupboard, causing all the pots and pans to fall.“That alerted my wife Sharon to come through.
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