Micky Mellon calls for major football rule change after watching his son suffer horror Dundee head clash

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Relieved Micky Mellon hopes the horror head clash his son endured will lead to an immediate change in the football rule book.Dundee striker Michael Mellon was knocked out after a sickening aerial collision with St Johnstone defender Liam Gordon.

Mellon junior was knocked unconscious and it took the quick-thinking reactions of Dundee club Doctor Derek McCormack to run on to the field and administer immediate treatment - even though referee David Munro had waved play on.His dad and Oldham Athletic manager hopes football can learn lessons and that the rules are changed so if something serious happens on the field that the doctor has the authority to run on right away.

Mellon said: “The doctor is there to make sure the players are safe. “He is a highly-trained specialist and he should be able to enter the field of play, at his own digression, if one of the players or referees needs his assistance. “Football must learn from this and make it a rule that if something serious happens then a doctor must be allowed to go straight on to the field. “People are telling me the Dundee doctor might get sanctioned for going on to treat Michael without permission. “I am just glad Doctor McCormack said I don’t care if I get sanctioned because the boy needs me. “He has seen the way he has landed and has been knocked out. “What if the doctor hadn’t gone right on and the unthinkable had happened?” Mellon has been a manager for 16 years but hopes no parent has to go through the hell of what he and his wife, Jane, had to endure on Sunday afternoon.

Mellon added: “We all need to learn from it and I am speaking as a dad here, football has to learn lessons. “I am just so glad that there was a doctor there at the scene to get on and take