Muamba

Patrice Muamba has suffered a possible fatal heart attack while playing for Bolton

It was horrific watching it live. The medical staff reacted so quickly I just hope they were able to save him.

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Jesus, it doesn't look at all good.

Match abandoned - must have real cause for concern to do that. Really shocking news - hope he pulls through.

Doesn't look good.Thoughts go out to him and his family,hope to God that he pulls through.Puts all other football matters into perspective.

On another site,they're saying that he's clinically dead.
Very shocking

Other tweeters have said he's breathing again

SSN is reporting he's stable in hospital

On BBC 24 they said that a defribulator was used on the pitch and in the tunnel. He is only 23????

Thoughts go out to him and his family.

He is in intensive care, they can literally make you breath and keep your heart going in there, sadly I have experience of this, fingers crossed.

I see a 21 yr old guy has been arrested for racists tweets about Muamba, who is in hospital fighting for his life ffs. I half expected it to be someone from Plymouth judging by Dane Bunney's crew's Twatter accounts, but it turned out to be someone from South Wales, who surprise surprise is claiming his twatter account was hacked.

Another awful incident yesterday where Kilmarnock had just beaten Celtic to win the Scottish League Cup, and as the Kilmarnock team were celebrating one of their players, Liam Kelly was told his father was in the tunnel after suffering a fatal heart attack watching the game. Must have been horrendous for him on what should have been one of the happiest days of his life.

I was watching it live and it wasnt nice at all, I spoke to my next door neighbours literally 15 minutes after it happened (who are both doctors) and they both said that they thought he would pass away

Massive credit to the emergency services though, they really are second to in england.

Saw that cretin on twitter, glad he was arrested... Another one that should be arrested is this bloke -https://twitter.com/#!/Walken4GOP

Blackburn boss Steve Kean has just offered to postpone their match with Bolton as well, very good of him.

I think i speak for all of ATD when i say, come on Fabrice, please pull through.

monti wrote:

I was watching it live and it wasnt nice at all, I spoke to my next door neighbours literally 15 minutes after it happened (who are both doctors) and they both said that they thought he would pass away

Massive credit to the emergency services though, they really are second to in england.

Saw that cretin on twitter, glad he was arrested... Another one that should be arrested is this bloke -https://twitter.com/#!/Walken4GOP

Blackburn boss Steve Kean has just offered to postpone their match with Bolton as well, very good of him.

I think i speak for all of ATD when i say, come on Fabrice, please pull through.

you certainly do Monti

Good luck Fabrice, out thoughts & prayers are with you & yours, here in Mid Devon

Wouldn't it be amazing if bolton were to win the FA cup and Fabrice was able to lift up the trophy.

monti wrote:

I was watching it live and it wasnt nice at all, I spoke to my next door neighbours literally 15 minutes after it happened (who are both doctors) and they both said that they thought he would pass away

Massive credit to the emergency services though, they really are second to in england.

Saw that cretin on twitter, glad he was arrested... Another one that should be arrested is this bloke -https://twitter.com/#!/Walken4GOP

Blackburn boss Steve Kean has just offered to postpone their match with Bolton as well, very good of him.

I think i speak for all of ATD when i say, come on Fabrice, please pull through.

Shouldn't really give dickheads like this airtime, but have to say it's really funny a Yank saying about British sportsmen and women taking drugs! Also Muamba's not British but that's neither here or there. This guy is probably married to his 13 year old cousin and eats squirrel but because he goes to church of a Sunday God loves him

What really annoyed me about the one that i posted is the fact he got 50+ retweets (for those that dont know what a retweet is, its where you repost another user's message, normally because you find it funny/agree with it) for his sick racist opinions.

Jock - I do agree with you, however the swansea lad was given airtime because of his tweets and he was arrested the following morning, which really shows you what a power twitter has become.

He then claimed that he had been hacked..... i mean if you're going to say something online, at least have the balls to admit it was you.

BBC reports that Bolton footballer Fabrice #Muamba showing "small signs of improvement" but still critically ill - London Chest Hospital.

Hopeful news.

Heart stopped for two hours, it's not looking good long term is it?

Oxygen starvation for a start.

Hope he pulls through, football supporters get enough bad press, but both Spurs and Bolton fans (and players) were tremendous on Saturday.

Really feel for the lad but I find the way many football fans sway from self congratulatory sympathy one week, to outright foul abuse and hatred of officials,players and other fans the next, quite moronic and cringeworthy.

He seems to be making progress, he's conscious and breathing without assistance now. Good luck to the lad.

Said on SSN this morning that he is recognising memebers of his family and is able to speak in his native French and English so doesn't look like any type of brain damage has occurred.

^ Brilliant news, would quite like argyle to do something tonight, maybe a minutes applause or a chant for him.

Monti- Chris/ El Prez was suggesting the same so I imagine it will be done in conjunction with the minute applause for Johnny Williams (who played for both clubs tonight).

Thanks Chemical, A nice touch.

Lets hope we can grab 3 points.

I preface the comment below with a caviat that my sincere sympathies go to him, his family, his team mates, friends and those who witnessed the incident at WHL the other night. But............

Does anyone else feel it's the latest in a long line of incidents to mutated into a loss of all sense of proportion?.

It doesn't take anything away from the sympathy surrounding an individual tragedy to say that no-one should have a monopoly on grief, or sympathy. Dozens, probably hundreds had heart attacks on Saturday. Some were saved but most would not have done. Where's the minutes applause for them?, where's the facetw@tter following for them?, where's the emcampment on world media outside their hospital/mortuary?.

It was a devastating private tragedy for one man and his family/friends yet it's being turned into some form of horrible Dianaesque mass public outpouring of grief. Why?. Because he was a footballer?, because he was famous?, because he was a celebrity?. Does celebrity now count so highly in the 'be-all-and-end-all' of existence that they're in some way vastly more important than everyone else?.

John Lloyd made a brilliant post on PASOTI about the instantly disposable nature of grief and sympathy in the world these days. For me minutes silences, books of condolence, flags flying half mast etc are becoming cheapened by their daily imposition for anything and everything.

I have tremendous sympathy for the individuals concerned. But I really have to ask myself if the 130,000 people who have added themselves to Fabrice Muambas twitter following are indeed "concerned" (in the involved sense). What business is it of theirs?, what business is it of any of ours?.

By all means do what you feel you need to do tonight but ask yourself how you once again became railroaded into joining a bandwagon of manufactured mass grief?.