Emergency services rescue top flight footballer from Glasgow river

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Emergency services rescue top flight footballer from Glasgow river in early morning dramatic rescue

Stacey Mullen @journostacey Reporter

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A TOP flight footballer was rescued from a river in the early hours of the morning after clubbing in Glasgow.

 

The Evening Times understands that the footballer had been partying at a city night spot prior to the incident.

 

He left the club and the alarm was raised after 2.30am that he had fallen into the water at the River Kelvin in the West End.

 

Emergency services scrambled to the scene. When they arrived, Police Scotland officers searched the area while the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service dispatched their boat from Polmadie Fire Station in Glasgow’s Southside.

 

The player, who is 26, was rescued and rushed to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

 

The Evening Times understands he was in the company of another professional footballer prior to the incident.

 

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Police Scotland both confirmed their attendance at the scene.

 

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “Around 2.40am on Sunday, August 27, police received a report of a 26 year-old male in the River Kelvin, Partick.

 

“Emergency services attended and a full search of the area was carried out with the male being located.

 

“He was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.”

 

The player’s condition is unknown and The Evening Times made attempts to contact his club.

 

What a lot of crap. As someone who has walked in the Kelvin in Kelvingrove to fish a ball out of the water many times, you would be beat to find a piece deeper than your knees. It is fast flowing but dangerous unless you slip my ass.

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LEAP TERROR

 

Aberdeen ace Gary Mackay-Steven rescued from Glasgow’s River Kelvin after hour and a half in the freezing water after jumping in on night out

 

The footballer had been in the Pittodrie club's squad for their 4-3 win over Partick Thistle but was an unused substitute

 

By Ben Archibald

 

27th August 2017, 10:59 pm

 

ABERDEEN star Gary Mackay-Steven was treated for hypothermia after a fireman pulled him from a freezing river.

 

The dramatic rescue at 4am on Sunday came an hour and a half after the ex-Celt, 26, jumped in to Glasgow’s River Kelvin.

 

He was taken to the city’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital but last night his condition was not known.

 

It’s believed Mackay-Steven had earlier been in the nearby Sanctuary nightclub but had left after an incident inside.

 

He’s understood to have been partying with a fellow footie ace.

 

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “Around 2.40am on Sunday, August 27, police received a report of a 26 year-old male in the River Kelvin, Partick.

 

“Emergency services attended and a full search of the area was carried out with the male being located.

 

“He was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.”

 

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service had dispatched their boat from Polmadie Fire Station in Glasgow’s Southside for the rescue.

 

A spokesman said: “At 2.46am on Sunday, August 27 the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to reports of a man in the water at the River Kelvin near Benalder Bridge in Glasgow.

 

The footie star was in the River Kelvin for an hour and a half before he was rescued

 

“Four appliances attended and specialist water rescue crews safely assisted the individual out of the water – he was then transferred into the care of paramedics after suffering the effects of hypothermia.

 

“Firefighters ensured the area was safe before leaving the scene.”

 

Mackay-Steven had been in the squad for Aberdeen’s 4-3 win against Partick Thistle at the city’s Firhill, but was an unused substitute.

 

The attacker began his career at Ross County before earning a move to Liverpool as a teenager.

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What a lot of crap. As someone who has walked in the Kelvin in Kelvingrove to fish a ball out of the water many times, you would be beat to find a piece deeper than your knees. It is fast flowing but dangerous unless you slip my ass.

Rivers are very high in scotland just now.

 

 

[pete 2,499]

Rivers are very high in scotland just now.

 

I think the fact that he was in the water for 1.5 hours says he must have been sitting or something. I have no idea where that bridge is and I only know about the Art galleries. i would imagine it would have been Byers road to Kelvingrove. The River doesn't really get a lot deeper with rain but flows faster. It would be cold after 1.5 hours. I guess he was sitting for that length of time. it is not deep but very slippery

 

 

This photo is taken from the bridge mentioned so you can see by the rocks it is not deep. If you slip and hit your head you can drown in a basin of course.

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I now know where the Sanctuary is. I thought it was that pub but was not sure. I walk past it every day when I am in Scotland but I have only been in it once to watch a group as far as I can remember. It was also there that the bastard who killed the girl on the Kelvin way picked her up. In the river between Dumbarton road and behind the Art Galleries I and my mates have been in the water hundreds of times, mostly to get a ball. If I remember right then the first bridge on the Art gallery side had an opening on the bank that we made a den. Later they blocked it off so nobody could get in. The one thing that was hellish there was midgies. You wanted to stay out of the shadows as you were eaten alive.

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Bridge on Ben Alder St, was it not?