ANDY LITTLE admits he will have to bide his time before making a return to action as he continues to recover from a career-threatening injury.

The Stirling Albion striker was left with a fractured skull and eye socket and damage to the vertebrae in his neck after a training ground collision earlier this year.

Little was knocked unconscious in the incident and spent several days in hospital as he set out on a lengthy road to recovery.

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The Northern Irishman isn’t yet able to get back on the park but he hopes to play some part in the Binos’ push for title glory.

Little told SportTimes: “I am making progress, but slowly. I think I now realise I need to give it more respect than I first did.

“It was a really, really bad one. It is a brain injury, not a hamstring or a calf, so you have got to be sensible with it.

“I am making progress, but it is slower than I wanted. I want to be back on the pitch.

“Stirling Albion have started flying, as I expected we would because we have kept the same team from last season, which was a very good team.

“We have made some good signings and we are sitting top of League Two. I think we are more than capable of winning that league and I would like to be involved.

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“Two months ago I had a plan of being ready for the first game of the season but now I have got a bit more respect for the injury and it is pretty much impossible to say.

“The club have been brilliant with me because I am not contributing at the minute and they are just telling me to be ready when I am ready.

“They were there the night it happened so they understand it. The players saw it, the manager saw it, the physio saw it, they know how bad it was.

“I think that was one of the main reasons in signing there again. They were loyal to me and offered me a contract and I knew they would understand the situation.”