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December 1, 2015

SA Prop Playing In UK Gets Stitches For Horrific Face Injury [Hectic Images]

They say football is 90 minutes of pretending you're injured and rugby is 80 minutes of pretending you're not. They might have a point.

Yoh, it looks like someone could give Heath Ledger’s Joker a run for his money.

24-year-old Durbanite Nicholas Schonert, prop for the Worcester Warriors in England, was scrumming down against Saracens at Twickenham when he suffered a nasty facial injury. Schonert was hit by a stray boot from Maro Itoje and the damage done was rather severe.

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Luckily it looks like the op went well and Nicholas tweeted this the following day:

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Here’s to a speedy recovery mate, good to see that gash all sown up.

[source:sport24]