a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2009/05/paralysed-matt-hampson-talks-about-life.html"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/Sg1bbQvdUQI/AAAAAAAADAw/WpCMq6yJdaA/s400/matt-hampson.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336021657412522242" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"As little as a few years back Matt Hampson was tipped as a future England star. Selected for the Leicester Tigers academy at a young age, Hampson was soon selected for the England u18, u19, and u21 squads before tragedy struck in 2005. /spanbr /br /A training accident changed his life completely as a scrum collapsed and he suffered a dislocation in his neck which trapped his spinal cord. Matt was left paralysed from the neck down and his rugby playing days and bright potential as a star on the field were over.br /br /Matt