![]() Grant was just 20 when he was critically hurt in the life-changing event, but he's turned a potentially tragic tale into one of inspiration. ![]() Moving at a faster pace comes naturally to the war veteran, who hasn't allowed his injuries to slow him in the slightest. You have got to see the funny side of it." The fact is that regardless of what the words say, the operation allowed me to walk and run and do so much else. "It is bizarre and I just laugh about it. "At the moment I am just two minutes off a record for the 10k for a single leg amputee and I have that in my sights. "It is ironic that it says I will never walk as I have gone on to run 10k in 40 minutes," he told the Daily Mail in 2015. READ MORE: Man Utd fan who wore '97 not enough' Hillsborough shirt is sentenced after guilty plea That's after Grant saw the famous Reds motto he had inked next to the club's Liverbird now read 'You'll never walk', which he took as a personal challenge. It wasn't until two years after the explosion Grant decided to have his leg amputated below the knee in November 2010, and the results were the stuff of a film script. He had also severed a femoral artery as a result of the accident, which initially left him in a coma for two weeks. Grant suffered two broken legs, a broken sternum, a broken elbow and had shrapnel lodged in both forearms following the incident in Helmand Province. The Royal Marine decided to discard the lower half of his right leg due to complications caused after a member of his team triggered an IED explosion on patrol in Afghanistan. ![]() It's a good thing Andy Grant has a good sense of humour after his leg amputation left him with only three quarters of his Liverpool tattoo. ![]()
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