A senior Barming Youth FC Blues Team player is back at home after suffering a serious head injury during a match.

Richard Bowden-Brown, was playing a match against White Horse at the YMCA centre off Melrose Close, Loose, and was losing 2-0 when there was a clash of heads with two other players.

Mr Bowden-Brown fell down as a result of the incident at around 2pm, but initially was able to get up and continue only to collapse a short time later and lose consciousness.

The game was abandoned as medics attended him.

The Kent Air Ambulance was summoned and landed on the pitch before flying him to Kings College Hospital, London, where he had a number of brain scans and was kept under observation for six hours. He was diagnosed of having suffered serious concussion. He was then released and taken home by his family.

He is still suffering from a sore neck and head and cannot remember anything of the incident, but he seems likely now to make a full recovery,

Mr Bowden-Brown, 38, is the son of Paul Bowden Brown, the former chairman of Maidstone United, who said: "It was a very worrying time, but the doctors and nurses at Kings were great and it all seems to have ended well."

*As the match had passed its 75th minute when the stoppage occurred, it is expected that the 2-0 result in White Horse's favour will stand.