Many footballers class walking out at Wembley Stadium as the highlight of their career. Liam Gordon is grateful just to be walking at all.
The wing-back hopes to clinch what would be a rollercoaster promotion for Walsall when they face AFC Wimbledon in the League Two play-off final on Monday.
Three years ago it was a prospect he could barely have envisaged, sat in a hospital bed fearing his foot may have to be amputated after a freak injury in training.
Gordon collapsed, his leg buckling out of the blue, and it turned out he had suffered 'compartment syndrome' – a condition more associated with serious impact injuries.