[Closed] Fabrice Muamba........

No, doesn't sound good. Hope the fella pulls though.

Hope he's okay.

dreadful, he was still getting CPR in the ambulance, doesn't look good for him at all.

It really didn't look good. The fact he just went down by himself, and not a tackle, suggests something very serious.

....ESPN should have cut the feed waaaaay sooner though.

Agreed Jamie. I thought ESPN didn't handle it well.

Thoughts are with him, although it sounds exactly the same situation as Marc Viviene foe.

A friend of mine works for a lab diagnostics company that went to the FA with the proposal for testing all registered professionals for sudden heart attack predisposition syndromes (genetic test). The FA said "too expensive" crazy really given the money in the game but the reality is that clubs dont t want to risk their investments in players with the tests. I hope that this is something different.

Horrible, doesn't look at all good for the lad.

Very scary. Absolutely shocking. I hope he pulls through.

Dreadful news. Hope he pulls through, poor lad.

tears in my eyes her - shocking and sad news

Hospital statement says he is stable.

The hospital are reporting he's in a stable condition. hats off to all concerned, they've done a great job tonight.

Luckily it happened at a stadium with good paramedics on hand, great effort, I hope he makes a full recovery however it's likely his career is now over, shame he was a good player but stranger things have happened.

Luckily it happened at a stadium with good paramedics on hand

Just listening to 5Live, and apparently there was a cardiologist in the crowd, who legged it onto the pitch and went to hospital with Muamba in the ambo.

Wow, some luck considering.

Indeed. That, coupled with having a defibrillator on hand, probably saved his life.

Good news, wishing him a speedy recovery and hopefully it's something that can be treated.

F-ck me, he is one lucky guy.

Great news 🙂

Fingers crossed he pulls through and reports saying he's stable are good. I was watching it live on ESPN and I think if they cut the feed they'd have been lambasted for it so it was a no win situation really. They did pull the cameras away from close-ups as to what was going on so they did that right. I'm sure they'd also want the viewers to know he was okay - if that was possible so staying with it for me was the right thing to do. All in all I hope he does recover and lets keep our fingers crossed.

Critical according to latest tweet 😥

Sorry I've got to ask

We have an insensitive spurs fan at work and he is gloating that Spurs are now through to the Semi finals.....this can't be right can it?

Game will be replayed.

Tell him he's a **** from us please.

And show him this.
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Sorry I've got to ask

We have an insensitive spurs fan at work and he is gloating that Spurs are now through to the Semi finals.....this can't be right can it?

Stick one on him from me, dick.

Spurs are now through to the Semi finals.....this can't be right can it?

No it's not right. On both counts.

Steady on chaps.

He will probably be being sedated and ventilated, and likely cooled down for 12 to 24 hours then re-warmed.

Look up therapeutic hypothermia for more info.

No one will be able to give any news, good or bad, until he is woken up and assessed.

Don't get your hopes up, and don't despair until there is further news.

Latest is he is Critical and in IC

Good news that they got him going again, hope he pulls through and goes on to make a speedy recovery...

Nice touch by the Spurs fans chanting his name , As much as football gets a bad press 99% are a decent bunch.

Well he's still holding on this morning. Heres hoping for him.

Poor guy

good luck to him.

fwiw, i thought the spurs crowd showed a lot of class.

A nice piece from Amy Lawrence about the sort of guy he is -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/17/arsenal-fabrice-muamba

Cripes - not good news at all. Had been avoiding the sports pages so I can watch the 6N games time-shifted to Oz time. Glad I saw this thread.

So 23 year old keels over with a hart attack.
What are the changes that he’s been using EPO or other such substances?

grahamh - Member

Go hang your head in shame.

Follow your own advice.

So 23 year old keels over with a hart attack.

Eh? They weren't even playing Man City.

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Of course we can never know if he was doping because there is no rigours drugs testing in football is there.

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are you for real graham? or just an attention seeking dickhead?

give the guy some respect.

I want to know why this is headlines and is taking up 10 minutes of reporting?

Sadly this happens quite a lot in sport, other instances are hardly reported

grahamh - Member

So 23 year old keels over with a hart attack.
What are the changes that he’s been using EPO or other such substances?

I would say that there's much less chance that you own and can use a dictionary than that Muamba was on EPO.

I'm with Houns. How much news time did Beryl get when she collapsed ? And she was THE BEST, not an also ran...

I want to know why this is headlines and is taking up 10 minutes of reporting?

The level something impacts the news is usually down to 2 factors. How many people does it affect/can relate to, and what is the frequency of the occurrence.

A participant in one of the worlds most popular sports, being watched by millions on the TV and 35,000+ at WHL, being victim to an event that affects very few, certainly at the age of 23, means it will be news.

Scary news and obviously my thoughts go out to his friends and family.

However the grief tourist in me is slightly happy that I get to make a public declaration of the sorrow I'm feeling.

Shocking,hope he pulls through....

BTW - Some right knobbers on this thread....

nice to see the no drugs in footie crowd rushing to rubbish the idea.

anyway his symptoms are more likely steroids rather than EPO.

I hope he is clean and makes a full recovery, but the problem is that FA/UEFA/FIFA deny ALL problems, natural heart issues and drug issues.

This thread was started in respect of a human who is now fighting for his life. Can we concentrate on that please instead of pity arguments or there will be only one result.

Keep fighting fella and well done to my fellow professionals and the hospital staff, times like this is what makes me proud to work in the NHS.

what ^^^^^^^he said

who knows what caused it so lets not jump to conclusions and just wish him well and a speedy recovery

who knows what caused it so lets not jump to conclusions and just wish him well and a speedy recovery

Surely in any other medium for conversation we'd be specualting about what might have caused it? Or is the 'real-life' forum different somehow?

To be blunt now is the time to be having the conversation about what caused it, everyone knows that whatever the outcome after the event it will be forgotten about and nothing will change. You either demand something is done now or forget it and accept nothing will change and the more your people will die in odd circumstances.

If you wish to debate without any evidence about what may have caused the condition of a man fighting then I am not going to stop you*
The fact no one has any idea would make the debate absolutely pointless [ no one knows] - this would stop me in the real work if not on STW**

*the man with the banning stick may though

**We end up with emotional outbursts like that that has no actual facts in it but bucket loads of [currenlty] baseless assumptions

Twelve young people a week die from undiagnosed heart conditions. Comments assuming drugs had to play a part show how much more awareness is needed.

People think that outwardly fit and healthy young people don't just drop dead but unfortunately they do. That sometimes these deaths could easily be prevented is the real tragdy.

[url= http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/ ]Cardiac Risk in the Young[/url]

The fact no one has any idea would make the debate absolutely pointless

Shhhh - you'll break the forum if this idea catches on.

You either demand something is done now or forget it and accept nothing will change and the more your people will die in odd circumstances.

What are you talking about? a man has had a heart attack while playing sport. thats all we know. Please give this a rest, it's very insensitive.

PS, my mate died of a heart attack aged 28. very fit guy, was he on drugs too?

Surely in any other medium for conversation we'd be specualting about what might have caused it? Or is the 'real-life' forum different somehow?

Yes, it's very different.
This isn;t some private conversation you are having with your mates in the pub. You are typing words and publishing them to the public at large. There's a big difference. In the same way that many would be quite rightly upset if a newspaper published those sort of unfounded and insensitive speculations you can't say the same on here for the same reasons.

It's about time a few on here woke up to the distinction between mouthing off to their mates in private and posting on a forum.

And yes, before someone trots out the usual cobblers 'It's not real - it's the internet'. It IS real and what you say is read by real people in the real world. And when people post insensitive speculative nonsense about a real human who is fighting for his life in a real hospital, people get REALLY annoyed about it... For real!

Warton, let me explain, there are two probable causes, either drugs or congenital issues, both are real problems and neither are being addressed by FIFA/UEFA/FA, i do hope that he gets better, i also hope that this actually leads to something being done about BOTH problems, my real fear is that if this is forgotten about then nothing will be done to sort either problem.

Think of it as trying to get some good out of a crap situation. and like when jade goody died it might make some people think about their health.

there are two probable causes

I understand what you're saying, and I agree that more needs to be done, but there is no way you can, at this moment in time narrow down what has happened to two probable causes, unless you have inside knowledge of what has happened. It's pure speculation.

I hope it gets better,nothing else is really a consideration at this point.