'I was screaming' - footballer stabbed seven times recalls mass knife attack

"I got stabbed on the shoulder first", he tells BBC Sport. "I remember jumping over the table, jumping over the chairs. I was just running down the corridor, telling people, 'there's a guy with a knife, run, I've been stabbed, run, run, run'.

I think I was the first person that got stabbed. But adrenaline kicked in." Gjoshe remembers how, despite his warning to other passengers, "some thought it was a joke at first, because obviously it was Halloween the day before. Some people ran, some just sat there, but I thought he was coming for me. "That split second, me jumping over the table, saved me. All I thought about was just running for my life, getting off that train. As I got down to the first or second carriage, I pulled the alarm, and was just drenched with blood." "I was thinking I wasn't going to see my family again, if I died, and that was the main worry for me", he says. "Normally I would drive back down to London. That was the first time I got on a train to go back. What's the chance of that happening? It's crazy." The train made an emergency stop at Huntingdon where it was met by armed police. Having been given first aid by a fellow passenger, Gjoshe managed to get himself out to the station car park, from where paramedics rushed him to hospital. It was only after surgery that he learned he had sustained seven wounds to his bicep, shoulder and arm.

Key points

• I think I was the first person that got stabbed.
• But adrenaline kicked in." Gjoshe remembers how, despite his warning to other passengers, "some thought it was a joke at first, because obviously it was Halloween the day before.
• Some people ran, some just sat there, but I thought he was coming for me.
• "That split second, me jumping over the table, saved me.
• All I thought about was just running for my life, getting off that train.