Son is not the first sports star to play through the pain barrier

Tottenham’s Son Heung-min is not expected to play again this season after suffering a broken arm in Sunday’s win at Aston Villa.

South Korea international Son completed the 90 minutes at Villa Park and scored twice in the 3-2 victory.

Here, the PA news agency looks at five other notable occasions when sports stars played through the pain barrier.

Bert Trautmann

Tiger Woods

Woods has won a total of 15 major titles and two of them by incredible margins of 12 and 15 shots, but perhaps his most remarkable success came in the 2008 US Open. Despite noticeably limping and being in obvious pain, Woods completed 72 holes at Torrey Pines and then defeated Rocco Mediate in a 19-hole play-off. Within days it emerged that Woods had triumphed despite a double stress fracture of his left tibia and an anterior cruciate ligament injury which required surgery that ruled him out for the rest of the season.

Geraint Thomas

Sam Burgess

Burgess produced a man-of-the-match display for South Sydney in their NRL Grand Final victory over Canterbury Bulldogs in 2014, but it was only later that the true scale of his heroics emerged. Burgess was hurt in a clash of heads with his England team-mate James Graham in the first tackle of the match and was later found to have suffered a fractured eye socket and fractured cheekbone, but played the full 80 minutes.

Duncan Keith

During the 2010 NHL play-offs, Duncan Keith of the Chicago Blackhawks was hit in the face at close range by a puck which knocked out seven of his teeth. However, after receiving a few minutes of treatment in the locker room, Keith returned to the ice and helped his side beat the San Jose Sharks and advance to the Stanley Cup final. “It’s just missing teeth,” Keith said at the time. “It’s a long way from the heart.”