'Incredible' how Gordon came back from double leg break

[Getty Images] It was "incredible" how Craig Gordon came back from a double leg break four years ago to make this summer's finals and end his career with Scotland at the World Cup, Rory Loy has stated on the BBC's Scottish Football Podcast. Ex-striker Loy suffered the same injury as the former Celtic, Hearts and Sunderland goalkeeper, who announced he is retiring from playing on Thursday. "I did the same thing, but I did it when I was 20, 23," he said of Gordon, who suffered the injury at the age of 39. "So it's a different mindset, 23, I suppose. You're still young, you're motivated, your body's young to try and come back from it. "But to do it at his age, in his late 30s and still manage to come back from it. Trust me, I know how difficult it is to come back from that injury, psychologically, as as well as physically. It's not easy. "The shin bone just snaps basically. So it needs to heal and then obviously your whole biomechanics, the way you walk, the way you move, the way you do everything, it just changes. "So I needed orthotics in my shoes basically to change and adapt to the way I now move differently and there's just so many different layers to it. "For him to go through that that type of thing at the age he was at and still have the motivation to come back and play football just sums up the type of mindset he had. "But, away from all of that, the level of goalkeeping and saves he had was incredible."