{"id":621681,"date":"2026-09-20T06:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/621681\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T06:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:50:16","slug":"pitch-roller-runs-over-andros-townsend-in-thailand-channel-newsasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/621681\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitch roller runs over Andros Townsend in Thailand \u2014 Channel NewsAsia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Pattani, Thailand, a motorized football-pitch roller knocked down 35-year-old Prachuap player Andros Townsend during the break of a Thai League 1 match. The former England international forward was warming up with his teammates and avoided serious injuries, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/sport\/townsend-hit-pitch-roller-while-warming-up-in-thai-league-6397186\">Channel NewsAsia reports<\/a>, citing Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Incident during warm-up<\/p>\n<p>Townsend stepped out of the exercise area to make a pass and did not notice the roller, which was being operated by a groundskeeper. The machine knocked the footballer down and drove over his legs almost up to his waist.<\/p>\n<p>The driver jumped off the roller and tried to lift the machine to free the player. Townsend avoided severe injuries and was able to get up.<\/p>\n<p>More current news is available on the UA.News Telegram channel <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/uanewsstream\">Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute appearance<\/p>\n<p>After the incident, the footballer continued warming up and later came onto the pitch as a late substitute. Prachuap won the match 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Townsend later joked about the episode on Instagram: he mentioned Stoke City, which has a reputation as a difficult opponent for teams playing away.<\/p>\n<p id=\"read-us-text\" class=\"read-us-text\">\n        Read us on <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/uanewsstream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/me.sendsmessenger.co\/ua_news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sends<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Download our app<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/ua-news\/id6478152508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-modal\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cabinet.ua.news\/assets-front\/images\/apple-store-app.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.uanews.app&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-modal\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cabinet.ua.news\/assets-front\/images\/google-store-app.svg\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                            <a class=\"display-sm no-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/ua.news\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#83e1fac3f6e2adede6f4f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                                        <\/a><br \/>\n                                                                                                                                                <a class=\"display-sm no-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/ua.news\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#cdafb48db8ace3a3a8babe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                                        <\/a><br \/>\n                                                                                                                                                <a class=\"display-sm no-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/ua.news\/ua\/money\/dopomozhy-proyektu-ua-news-kryptodonatom\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"&#010;                                    max-width: 90%; margin:0 auto;&#010;                                \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789887016_410_usdt-uanews.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Pattani, Thailand, a motorized football-pitch roller knocked down 35-year-old Prachuap player Andros Townsend during the break of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-621681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}