Luton captain Tom Lockyer has collapsed on the pitch and received medical treatment during his side’s Premier League match with Bournemouth on Saturday before the referee abandoned the remainder of the match. Hatters boss Rob Edwards immediately entered the pitch to stop play and ensure that the Welshman was quickly attended to.
Sky Sports reported that Lockyer fell to the floor against Bournemouth and was being treated by paramedics before play was suspended midway through the second half. The defender had collapsed in the Championship play-off final last season.
Tim Sherwood, who was covering the match on Soccer Saturday, claimed that Lockyer was being carried off the pitch by medics as players were taken off the field and moved into their respective dressing rooms.
On X (formerly known as Twitter) Luton provided an update as they wrote: “There’s a break in play as Tom Lockyer seeks medical attention. We are all with you, Locks,” accompanied by a heart emoji.
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Commentator Gary Taphouse, who was working at the match, revealed that the Bournemouth staff doctor confirmed Lockyer was “alert and responsive”.
Both sets of players then came back out onto the pitch after it had been confirmed that the game was suspended, applauding the supporters while Lockyer’s name rang around the Vitality Stadium, with boss Edwards visibly emotional as he was in tears on the pitch.
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Lockyer had heart surgery in the wake of his collapse at Wembley in May, having gone down unchallenged in Luton’s victory over Coventry to seal their place in the top flight. He suffered an atrial fibrillation, a condition that can cause an irregular or abnormally fast heart rate, but had been given the green light to continue playing professional football.
“I’ve had the operation to fix it and it shouldn’t happen again,” he told the BBC. “There’s not really any reason to say why that happened. I’ve been given the all-clear – it is what it is and I just want to draw a line under it now and move on.
“I’ve had my full heart checked and double-checked with all the scans and tests they can do on a heart, and they’ve all come back positive.”
He remembered the incident earlier this year: “I remember running backwards and then I went really light-headed and my legs went really weak straight away, as I was running back. I remember stumbling back and then all I remember was [physiotherapist] Chris Phillips over the top of me, and he was saying ‘Locks, you’re coming off’.
“I was like ‘no mate, no mate, I’m fine’, but he was saying ‘no, it’s serious Locks, you’ve collapsed. You’re coming off’. Then it dawned on me that I was on the floor and this is actually serious. I just got really emotional. I couldn’t stop crying on the floor.”
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