The Sunderland chairman, Niall Quinn, has revealed that the club is in the process of being sued by a fan. The fan was injured when a stray shot hit him in the face while watching the team train a couple of years back. Apparently the Djibril Cisse strike knocked the fan clean out.

Quinn was responding to a question during a BBC Radio Newcastle phone-in about whether fans were still able to watch team training sessions.

He explained that a fan “is in the process of suing us right now” after sustaining “a bad injury” from said ball in face.

Niall continued:

We had a supporter who got a bad injury, I think it was one of Djibril Cisse’s misses where he had a shot from 20 yards.

I’m making fun of it now, but it knocked a supporter out. It was quite serious.

That supporter is in the process of suing us right now.

The Guardian journalists, Simon Burnton and Paul Doyle, delivered a scathing take on the matter to their readers:

Such is the ferocity of Djibril’s shooting that when he glimpses the goal there is only one person in the entire stadium who can consider himself almost certainly safe from imminent harm – the opposition goalkeeper.

So vicious was this shot that the fan was apparently seeing stars for some time, before coming to and realising that they were just Sunderland players.

They also said he has just “found another unique and ingenious way to create attention,” and called him a “Big Cisse”.

The Premier League club has declined to release further details about the incident.

[Source: Guardian]