The scenes at the end of Egypt’s World Cup qualifier in Dakar were as horrifying as they were disturbing.
Mohamed Salah, bewildered, shocked, and disorientated, stumbled towards the tunnel amid a bombardment of missiles from the stands as security guards desperately protected his eyes and head from serious injury.
Yet you sensed it wasn’t the coin which hit him on the head that caused such devastation in his stunned expression, but the implications of what had unfolded in the shootout against Senegal. His nation were out of the World Cup, his chance to grace the ultimate football stage at the absolute height of his career now gone forever. Salah knows all about the depth of that disappointment.
