Or a lack thereof...
Over the weekend, this happened in game to Tottenham goalie Hugo Lloris...
Lloris got treatment for the injury and 9 minutes of stoppage time were added to the game, but Lloris continued to play on in this case. Soccer fans thought this was heroic. The rest of the world thought, for the most part, that th Premier League is woefully behind in their addressing of sports injuries- especially head trauma like that...
Here's AVB after the match...
((HT: BPL/BBC))
Spurs head of medical services, Wayne Diesel, said he cleared Lloris: "Once the relevant tests and assessments were carried out, we were totally satisfied that he was fit to continue playing."
But that decision has drawn the ire of the PFA (the player's union), FIFA's equal to Diesel, and FIFPro (the international player's union)...
It seems that the world's premier football league is a decade behind in athlete's treatment...
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