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Dunno how many aware of the weekend's football story about Fabrice Muamba, if not please read this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17460781

Most extraordinary thing you have heard in a while possibly ever.

I've posted the video's below of the game, the first one shows the event unfold, the second shows bits of the firsts but also shows the reactions of the players. Footballers are often criticised for being money grabbers. But in this case they showed they are only human.

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Get better soon Muamba.
 
Best story I heard was of the Doctor in the crowd who ran on to the pitch when he realised what was going on.


Wish him a speedy recovery to as fit as he can be after such a serious incident.
 
Not to be disrespectful in any way because this is a very unfortunate event. But i feel its a bit unfair how this has got so much media when on sunday a 16 year old boy collapsed on a rugby field playing for his club and died instantly in worcester, this story got hardly any attention and in my opinion is just as much of a tragedy as the muamba story who i wish all the best for.
 
TRF_Olyy said:
Best story I heard was of the Doctor in the crowd who ran on to the pitch when he realised what was going on.


Wish him a speedy recovery to as fit as he can be after such a serious incident.
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Cracking interview about the cardiologist who ran on, on the bbc website.
 
Aye it's strange alright. And he's not one of these scumbag football players like Joey Barton and such. Seems a genuinely lovely fella, has a few A levels and he's doing an open university accounting course in his free time instead of beating up DJs and banging old prostitutes so I'm all the more gutted for him. Hope everything works out for him.

I wasn't too shocked when I heard it. Got used to this type of story a couple of years. A couple of GAA players (they maybe be amateur but these guys usually have ridiculous levels of cardiovascular fitness) suffered same sort of instances over a few months.

There was at least one death http://www.independent.ie/national-...s-days-after-collapsing-on-pitch-2917787.html .

Just shows the importance of regualar checks for underlying heart conditions.
 
It's one of those things which makes all decent football fan come together and show support. There, unfortunatley, have been some trolling but 99% of fans, players, managers etc have come together in support of Muamba.

I really hope he pulls through and plays again.
 
SelimNiai said:
It's one of those things which makes all decent football fan come together and show support. There, unfortunatley, have been some trolling but 99% of fans, players, managers etc have come together in support of Muamba.

I really hope he pulls through and plays again.
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Aye, Liam Stacey who is sad to say is Treorchy RFC, scrum half who decided to write some inappropriate stuff on twitter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17434587

But saying that some of the support has been fantastic:

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The Muamba story has been an example of everything good in football. The sport gets a lot of flak on here, but there's a great sense of commendatory and decency at the heart of the game, despite whatever else is said.

EDIT: And all of this in a week where we have one rugby player accused of biting someone and another accused of deliberately breaking someone's arm. As a sport we have no right whatsoever to look down our noses at football.

Hope the lad is alright, although I doubt he'll play again.
 
It is just for the quick thinking of that cardiologist and the medical staff at the ground the lad has a very good chance of making a full recovery, very very lucky.
 
Aye considering that he was techincally dead for 78 mins and that he had to de-fibed twice on the pitch, once down the tunnel and thirteen times in the ambulance.
 
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Oh FFS, what is it with over blown exaggeration at the moment? A stopped heart is not "dead" otherwise CPR would be a complete waste of time.
 
Any definition of "death" that includes someone who's body is not shut down to the point it can't continue working would confuse me.
 
Teh Mite said:
Oh FFS, what is it with over blown exaggeration at the moment? A stopped heart is not "dead" otherwise CPR would be a complete waste of time.
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Its called clinical death rather than death or dead to reflect the possibility of post-arrest resuscitation, it is considered to be the final physical state before permanent death which is when CPR dont work.
 
Teh Mite said:
Oh FFS, what is it with over blown exaggeration at the moment? A stopped heart is not "dead" otherwise CPR would be a complete waste of time.
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So his heart stopped for 78 minutes, but he didn't die?

You're right, **** em'.
 

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