{"id":473076,"date":"2023-12-16T12:41:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T16:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473076"},"modified":"2023-12-16T14:13:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T18:13:55","slug":"shocking-scenes-as-player-faints-during-premier-league-game","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/shocking-scenes-as-player-faints-during-premier-league-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking scenes as player faints during Premier League game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League encounter between Bournemouth and Luton was stopped in the 55th minute after the captain of the away side Tom Lockyer, collapsed on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Players from both sides rushed to call the medical staff on the field as quickly as possible to help Lockyer.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Simon Hooper made the decision to send the players off the pitch. In this critical situation, Luton&#8217;s head coach, Rob Edwards, rushed onto the field, underscoring the severity of the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Luton Town captain Tom Lockyer gone down with a head injury and he\u2019s has now been stretchered off.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 Bournemouth doctor has confirmed that Lockyer is &#8220;alert and responsive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffb\ud83e\udde1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eFNF0ozeLK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eFNF0ozeLK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1736062684582269407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first unfortunate episode for the captain. On May 27, he experienced a similar collapse in the 11th minute during the promotion playoff against Coventry for entry into the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Luton fans rallied in support of Lockyer, and Bournemouth&#8217;s medical staff confirmed that the player is conscious. It was later confirmed that he suffered a head injury, but his condition is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Premier League encounter between Bournemouth and Luton was stopped in the 55th minute after the captain of the away side Tom Lockyer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":473083,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17945,20865],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18154,20867],"acf":{"announce":"Luton captain Tom Lockyer collapsed in the 55th minute","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473076"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473108,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473076\/revisions\/473108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473076"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473076"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}