Quote:Tottenham's FA Cup game against Bolton Wanderers has been abandoned after Trotters midfielder Fabrice Muamba collapsed and stopped breathing.
Medics spent 10 minutes trying to resuscitate the 23-year-old on the field before the players were called off by referee Howard Webb.
BBC Radio 5 live senior football reporter Ian Dennis says the midfielder is fighting for his life.
The score was 1-1 when he collapsed with no players close-by on 43 minutes.
Medical staff gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and tried to revive him with a defibrillator.
He was taken off the pitch on a stretcher and ESPN reported that he was not breathing as he was taken down the tunnel.
The former Arsenal midfielder has been taken to hospital.

(17-03-2012 18:39 )Money_Shot Wrote:  The Tottenham and Bolton game has been abandoned due to serious injury.

Fabrice Muamba has collapsed on the pitch. Let's hope it is nothing to serious...

(17-03-2012 19:55 )snookered147 Wrote:  It sounds like Muamba was not responding to attempts to revive him for a sustained period of time. The longer there is no response to such immediate emergency treatment the more
of a worry it becomes. All this for someone of only 23 years of age. My thoughts and prayers are with him.

(17-03-2012 20:05 )babelover48 Wrote:  

(17-03-2012 19:55 )snookered147 Wrote:  It sounds like Muamba was not responding to attempts to revive him for a sustained period of time. The longer there is no response to such immediate emergency treatment the more
of a worry it becomes. All this for someone of only 23 years of age. My thoughts and prayers are with him.

Thoughts and prayers with Fabrice Muamba special commendation should be given to Howard Webb for the calm way he handled the situation. referees are often criticised for certain things, but Webbneeds to given specvial praise.