To this day, Mo Salah can barely think about it, think about the mental pain and anguish, when he was helped from the pitch, a broken man just 30 minutes into the 2018 Champions League final.
Now, there is a visible wince as he recalls the moment, the smile which seems to be permanently on his face disappearing as a cloud falls across his eyes. "I remember when I went off, it was the worst moment in my career,” he says now, of that incident where he was subtly, but brutally accosted by Real Madrid ’s Sergio Ramos.
“It was the worst thing to happen for a player. I knew the result from the hospital. We couldn't lose that way. I was really down at that time. We had a good season and came to the Champions League final and then I went off.”
