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Fabrice Muamba planning ‘normal day’ 10 years on from cardiac arrest on pitch and happy to still be enjoying life

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IT was the day football held its breath for 78 minutes.

A packed White Hart Lane fell silent as players watching on began to pray on the pitch.

Fabrice Muamba has revealed he is planning a ‘normal day’ ten years on from his shock cardiac arrest during Bolton’s clash at TottenhamCredit: Arthur Edwards / The Sun

But for Fabrice Muamba, reaching ten years since his cardiac arrest is nothing to celebrate.

Thursday will be just a normal day in his household, just like every other day since his heart started beating again after collapsing while playing for Bolton at Tottenham in 2012.

Muamba, 33, said: “It will be just a normal day in my house.

“There will be nothing new happening. You have your moments but I am still going to have to drop my kids to school and do what I need to do.

“It has been ten years but life goes on.

“I am thankful the people up there looked after me and I am still here and I am here to enjoy life.”

Muamba’s miraculous recovery after his heart stopped for 78 minutes was down to quick actions of a few doctors.

Lifelong Spurs fan and cardiologist Andrew Deaner was one of them as he rushed onto the pitch from the terraces at White Hart Lane.

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Deaner told SunSport: “I got there about five and a half minutes in and they had already tried the first attempted shock which didn’t work.

“After a couple attempts they decided to take him off the pitch and take him to hospital.

“In the ambulance Jonathan Tobin, the Bolton club doctor, was in the back with his football boots on trying to do CPR in the back of a speeding ambulance with someone holding onto his hips to keep him in place as he kept slipping.”

Muamba has gone on to be married, have three more children and receive a degree during the ten years since the incident.

But Deaner revealed they were only five minutes away from giving up after the midfielder failed to respond to 13 defibrillator shocks.

He added: “I spoke to the Bolton doctor and I told him if we don’t get a response in the next five minutes we were going to stop.

“We got to the point where it seemed much more likely he was going to die rather than survive.

“Doing CPR from the time he collapsed was the key to survival.

“It was an important lesson that if you carry out CPR you can keep people alive.”

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