Yeovil Town goalkeeper Joe Day played through a league game despite suffering with a spider bite on his head.
The 33-year-old is on loan at the National League side from Newport County and recently played in their 2-0 home victory over Braintree Town. Despite keeping a clean sheet, many didn't know that the day started off horrendously for the goalkeeper who woke up with a bite on his head.
Day didn't think much of it but following his side's victory, the bite swelled up to a point that he was forced to go to A&E. Upon inspection, doctors came to the conclusion that it was a spider bite as the Brighton native spent the next two nights in hospital receiving treatment.
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"The most likely cause of the bite, the doctor did reckon it was the reaction they'd expect from a bad false widow bite," Day told BBC Radio Somerset. Despite the brief hospital stay, Day was on hand to play 90 minutes in the Glovers' FA Cup win over Gateshead three days after the arachnid struck.
He stated that false widow spiders are a common sight around his house, but admitted: "I've never reacted to a bite like this in my life." Doctors had to drain the bite because of the size it swelled up to as he was given antibiotics from a drip.
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Day made a swift return to the Yeovil team as he played in their 2-0 win FA Cup win over Gateshead but did it with a cap that was given to him by the club's medical staff. The goalkeeper wasn't the biggest fan of wearing it as he admitted: "I didn't enjoy wearing it. I had the big bandage underneath it as well.
"My right ear was pinned back and because of the swelling my hearing wasn't great in that ear anyway, so with the bandage and the cap on I couldn't hear too well."
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While he's through the worst of it, it's an experience he won't look back too fondly on. "It was a pretty nasty experience, it was pretty painful the few days that it was really bad," he added.
Yeovil Town will travel to League Two Wrexham in the FA Cup second round.
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