Tottenham Hotspur captain, Hugo Lloris, had a day to forget on Saturday as he managed to somehow hurt his team and himself in one moment of madness.
Just two minutes into the match, Lloris decided to attempt to catch a cross-come-shot from Brighton, rather than taking the simple and safe option of tipping it over the bar.
Safe to say, it all went wrong rather quickly as Hugo was forced to drop the ball rather than carrying it over his own goal line.
The Brighton striker beat the likes of Jan and Toby to the loose ball and tapped it home, while Lloris fell awkwardly on his arm as he hit the deck.
Medics were rushed on and Lloris was given oxygen before being stretchered off and sent to hospital. Spurs late confirmed that the captain had dislocated his elbow.
However, despite the severity of the painful injury, ex-Spurs boss, Tim Sherwood, still felt the need to make a cheap and tasteless joke.
Minutes after full-time, Sherwood said (BT Sport coverage at 12:30 – as quoted by the Mirror): “Listen, Hugo would hold his arms up if he could hold both up and say that, ‘that’s a mistake’.”
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