SURVIVOR Paul Glennerster says he remembers little of what happened before Germaine Lindsay's suicide bomb went off on the King's Cross Tube train.

Speaking publicly for the first time, Mr Glennerster said he blacked out straight away and woke to find himself on the floor, under a pile of commuters also thrown aside in the blast.

He said: "I pulled myself up and realised straight away my leg had gone. It was still attached but was swinging about to the left. It was hanging by a few tendons."

Mr Glennerster, who works in Holborn, was due to arrive at Holborn Station following the stop at Russell Square. Instead, he had to hop out of the Tube to the side of the tunnel to wait for help.

His story made national headlines after Helen Long, an Underground worker, told how she helped keep him awake during treatment from paramedics.

Mr Glennerster, who was carried away to Russell Square for initial treatment before he was transferred to hospital, praised her efforts and those of the emergency services on July 7.

"They were fantastic," he said. The policemen were younger than me and, after they carried me out, they went back even though they weren't sure about secondary devices on the tube.

"She Helen Long was talking to me for two hours and that was great." Mr Glennerster has since been reunited with Helen Long and the five policemen and women who carried him from danger. They visited him at St Thomas's Hospital, London, after his operation.

BEFORE the blast that took away his left leg, Paul Glennerster was a regular Sunday league footballer.

A former John Hampden Grammar School pupil, he was captain for The Horse and Jockey pub, in Tylers Green.

But as he tries to get his life back together again, he told the Free Press it was his love of the game that was helping his recovery, even though he would now be forced to watch from the sidelines.

He has taken to helping the team manager with managerial duties.

He said: "I want to stay involved with the club because I was playing since its formation and it was a big part of my life that has been ripped away from me. It has been difficult, but there is nothing I can do about it now. The guys his team-mates have been brilliant about it."

Mr Glennerster, an insurance broker in Holborn, London, is now learning to get along with his new artificial leg. He is managing to walk and drive again and hopes to return to work next month. However, he first has to undergo plastic surgery on one of his eyes which was also damaged in the explosion.

Mr Glennerster says he is now looking to return to London and face the area where he feared he would lose his life.

He said: "Its about getting back into London and doing some trips on the Tube and having the balls to go back on there. Hopefully, next month will be the time to do it."