When I wiggled my toes it was the best feeling ever SMALL TRIUMPHS LIFT PARALYSED ACE

THE INTERVIEW

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BAD luck, injury and serious setbacks can knock even the strongest person for six.

When the odds are stacked against you, there aren’t many of us who wouldn’t indulge in a touch of self-pity or raging moods. Which makes Mose Masoe’s remarkable story hard to match.

The father-of-three – with a fourth on the way next month – was told in January that his rugby league career was over and that he may never walk again.

Paralysed from the neck down, after an innocuous tackle in a pre-season friendly, Hull KR prop Masoe’s future looked dire.

But, apart from one “sad moment” with his partner Carissa when he was stretchered off, Masoe has simply refused to get downhearted.

Fears that he might be left permanently paralysed have been blasted out of the water. He posts videos of his landmark achievements on social media, a recent one being a triumphant walk unaided across a gym.

The Samoa international, who won the Grand Final with St Helens in 2014

(right) said: “I have always been a glass half full kind of person.

“I like to look at the bright side of life. You’ve got to do what you can to make the most of what you’ve got.”

In January, as he lay paralysed with a possible bleak future ahead of him,

Masoe didn’t appear to have a lot to make the most of but it was the small things, and little targets, that kept him focused.

He said: “I told myself that everything I can get back will be a positive.

“At first that was trying to wiggle my toes and when I managed that it was the best feeling ever. Then it became about trying to move a finger and when I did that I was absolutely stoked.

“Every little thing added up. I literally refused to go down the road of thinking everything was hopeless.

“There was never a day when I let myself think that way. I am surrounded by heaps of good people helping me so I look at every little target as something ex