As Tom Lockyer was treated and then taken off on a stretcher to applause from all four stands, the images from the Vitality Stadium evoked memories: of Christian Eriksen’s collapse in June 2021, playing for Denmark against Finland in Copenhagen, and of Fabrice Muamba in March 2012, playing for Bolton against Tottenham at White Hart Lane. Both lived to tell the tale.
The hope is, long-term, that Lockyer proves as lucky as Eriksen and Muamba. “I was gone from this world for five minutes,” Eriksen said. For Muamba, it was 78 minutes.
