Park life.

Tim Collison dons his kit and takes to the pitch to tackle policies offering affordable personal accident protection for amateur footballers.

It is estimated that more 250,000 amateur football players are rushed
to hospital casualty departments each year. Over a third of these injuries
will relate to the leg or knee, although emergency dental work is more
common than people realise.


If the injury is serious, say a broken leg, then the player will need time
off work - the Association of British Insurers estimates that 11 million
working days are lost each year through sporting injuries.


However, despite these alarming facts, there are