A former League Of Ireland star has said he is ‘lucky to be alive’ after being viciously assaulted on the way home from the shop on Sunday evening
Pat, ‘Mini’, Mohan, who was a midfielder for Drogheda United in the 1980’s and had gone to a EuroSpar in the town to buy a bottle of wine to celebrate Liverpool winning the Carabao Cup at Wembley.
He told 
local radio station, LMFM,’ On the way back, I was maybe thirty seconds from my house when a car sped out of a car park and blocked my way.
‘I asked could I get past as otherwise I would have had to step off the footpath into traffic to get by and the next thing a guy got out of the car and thumped the head off me.
‘This other fellow came running and hit me in the face with his head, I fell on the ground and must have passed out,’
Incredibly when he came round Pat had the presence of mind to take a photo of the car used by his attackers.
‘I don’t know how I did it but I got my phone out and got a picture of the car, the ambulance man who arrived was amazed I managed it and the guards couldn’t believe it.
‘It’s funny the things that come into your head, I am 59 and my dad was that age when he took a massive heart attack and all I could see was my dads face in my minds eye.
‘The guy who struck me with his head used so much force my two eyes are closed today.
‘I have twenty or thirty stitches in my knee it is cut open I don’t know how that happened I just don’t know but the blood was pumping out of it and my face was busted.
‘They’re animals that’s all I’ll say thugs is what they are, just animals, I’m lucky to be alive.’
Drogheda Gardai are investigating the incident.
