MARK Badman has become the second Chippenham Town player in a month to fall victim to an attempted mugging in the centre of Bristol.
He was left with blood gushing from a broken nose after he was set upon by two men while walking to his car in the city centre on Friday night.
Badman believes they were attempting to steal his mobile phone.
He missed Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Moor Green but played through the pain barrier as Chippenham were knocked out of the Wiltshire Premier Shield by Salisbury on Tuesday night.
Said Badman: "I left my two housemates in town but two lads saw me texting someone and said something like 'can we have your phone?' I said no and one of them smacked me in the nose. I went to hospital and had it x-rayed and they said it was broken."
Matt Rawlins cracked a bone in his wrist and had 18 stitches in a head wound after he was attacked in Corn Street on February 23.
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