a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TGz8fiiI8VI/AAAAAAAAEcI/_xvexqJc4H8/s1600/stuart-mangan-documentary.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TGz8fiiI8VI/AAAAAAAAEcI/_xvexqJc4H8/s400/stuart-mangan-documentary.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507054063143416146" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Early last week I let you know that there was a show coming up on TV about a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/08/day-life-changed-stuart-mangan-story.html"Stuart Mangan/a, the young player who suffered a horrific rugby injury while playing for his club in London. Thanks to the help of a friend, we’ve managed to organise that you can watch the full version of this touching documentary right here on the site./spanbr /br /If you’re not familiar with the story, Irishman Stuart broke his neck when playing rugby in London in 2008. Only 24 at the time, the young flyhalf went into a ruck and suffered what has been described as one of the worst spinal injuries to be seen in the sport.br /br /Stuart was left with no feeling below his neck as the C1 complete break meant his life changed dramatically in an instant. Requiring a ventilator to breathe, and 24 hour supervision, this is the story of what the next 16 months were like for him.br /br /Tragically, Stuart contracted an illness and passed away a year ago, in August 2009.br /br /This is not a rugby documentary. It is however the story of how a talented young man, who had the world at his feet, had his, and his loved ones, lives changed forever after something that happened on a rugby field.br /br /His story is that of courage and determination, and as you’ll see, he showed remarkable strength given the circumstances that he found himself in for the last few months of his short, but eventful, life.br /br /We all play and love the wonderful game of rugby, and while these type of injuries are incredibly rare, it’s important that we come together when they do happen. Donate what you can, give your time, and make a difference where possible.br /br /Once again, this is a tragic story and rugby is span style="font-style: italic;"not/span featured prominently in it. I thought it was important to share with you all though as Stuart’s enthusiasm and determination is infectious and inspiring to say the least. It’s just under an hour long and tracks his time since the injury, up until his untimely passing.br /br /span style="font-style: italic;"The documentary is in 5 parts, so it's presented to you below as a playlist. That means that it will start at Part 1, and change to Part 2 automatically, etc. You can control which part you see by clicking the button to the right of the play button. /spanbr /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/DFC3B931AE7A3359?hl=en_USamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/DFC3B931AE7A3359?hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Total time:/span 56 mins/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-2990089054612434600?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=JhisXBm9p0o:D4qV2dVFtEs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/JhisXBm9p0o" height="1" width="1"/ More...