Googling an ailment is often an instantly regrettable practice as it can allow panic to set in, and Matt Doherty had no intention of going down that road when he was faced with a potential skin cancer scare last month.
The Ireland defender has been nursing a knee injury since the start of the season but it was the small procedure on his lip that caused him concern.
Look closely and you can see the scar and Doherty explained yesterday: “It was something like a freckle. I thought it was nothing but the doc saw it.
"I told him it had been there for about a year and it had probably got a bit bigger.
“So we went to the dermatologist and she was like: ‘I don’t like it, you’re going to have to have it cut out’.
“So in your head you’re thinking,‘okay, what’s the worst case scenario?’
Doherty continued: “Skin cancer – that word was mentioned but not in a threatening way. It was just ‘let’s see what happens’. I was never really in full panic mode.”
Surgery swiftly followed and sure enough, Doherty got the all clear.
