Gruesome pictures: footballer James Gray's injuries after he was bitten by Britain's most venomous spider

Twitter/James Gray Gruesome: The 23-year-old underwent surgery to cut out the infection, leaving him with a hole in his right arm 
 
A footballer has told of how he was rushed to hospital after he was bitten by the country's most venomous spider while sleeping.
Wrexham striker James Gray was in bed at his Manchester home when the suspected false widow spider sunk its fangs into his right arm.


Over the next few days, he developed a fever and struggled to sleep, while his arm began to swell up and issue a yellow-coloured pus.
He was advised by a doctor to go straight to A&E , where he was put on a drip and taken for tests to determine the cause of the swelling.
Shortly after, the 23-year-old, whose veins were red and 'popping out' of his arms, was informed by medics that he had suffered a spider bite.
He was forced to undergo surgery to cut out the infection, leaving him with a stomach-churning hole in his arm.

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James, who joined Wrexham last June, told the Daily Star: "They had to slice the infection out of my arm and it went quite deep.
“It started to puss out before I went for surgery and you can imagine how that looked and felt."
The footballer spent several days in hospital, undergoing the operation and having IV antibiotics pumped into his body.