20 Football Injury Pictures Not For The Faint-Hearted

14. Xabi Alonso

This isn't particularly hard to look at but, when you actually imagine it happening to you, you definitely cringe a little. It was the 2010 World Cup Final between the Netherlands and Spain and Nigel de Jong crazily executed a studs-up kick to Xabi Alonso's chest. Remarkably, referee Howard Webb only gave de Jong a yellow card, saying afterwards that his view of the incident had been obstructed.