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Tottenham goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes has revealed how he put his reputation - and career - on the line for the club early into his Premiership experience.
Gomes was seen with tears in his eyes in a famous game against Stoke City.
“In that game I was on painkilling injections,” Gomes told the Sunday Times. “That week I injured my hip going for a 50-50 ball in training. It was raining and I ended up colliding with Alan Hutton. I went to the dressing room on a stretcher. Two days later I had to play Stoke. I was crying with pain. And people on TV were making fun of me.
“Nobody outside the club knew what I was going through. I cried when I got home from that game, I cried because I tried to give my best for the team. But the media kept chasing me, saying that I hurt one of my own team.
“For three months after that I trained only once a week, usually the day before the game. I had to practise parrying shots not being able to fall on my right side. Sometimes a striker would come into a scoring position and I would just close the right corner and give him the left one. I was having painkilling injections before every game. At that time I couldn’t even stop to think about it, I needed to show the club my commitment.
“People didn’t trust my back-up [Sanchez Cesar]. The manager would come and say, ‘I’d rather have you at 50% than him at 100% ’. I told him, ‘I’m not 100% but if you need me I’m here’.”
Gomes was seen with tears in his eyes in a famous game against Stoke City.
“In that game I was on painkilling injections,” Gomes told the Sunday Times. “That week I injured my hip going for a 50-50 ball in training. It was raining and I ended up colliding with Alan Hutton. I went to the dressing room on a stretcher. Two days later I had to play Stoke. I was crying with pain. And people on TV were making fun of me.
“Nobody outside the club knew what I was going through. I cried when I got home from that game, I cried because I tried to give my best for the team. But the media kept chasing me, saying that I hurt one of my own team.
“For three months after that I trained only once a week, usually the day before the game. I had to practise parrying shots not being able to fall on my right side. Sometimes a striker would come into a scoring position and I would just close the right corner and give him the left one. I was having painkilling injections before every game. At that time I couldn’t even stop to think about it, I needed to show the club my commitment.
“People didn’t trust my back-up [Sanchez Cesar]. The manager would come and say, ‘I’d rather have you at 50% than him at 100% ’. I told him, ‘I’m not 100% but if you need me I’m here’.”
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