FABRICE MUAMBA (I know not Wednesday but very important)

[licule1975]

Shocking time for muamba praying for him to recover and get back to himself

[Essix Blue]

Confirmed they are keeping him in a coma for at least 24 hours.

There's still hope

[swfc-dan]

A very similar thing happened to a friend of mine doing sport last year( october) She collapsed and died for 20 mins. Another friend who is a paramedic was there and got her heart going finally. She was in intensive care for3 weeks and had a quadruple bypass. Today she returns to the sport she loves.

So there is always hope and the ambulance service and NHs really deserve to be treat with total respect.

There is always hope. All the best to Muamba.

Wow great story mate.

Don't think anyone really cares whether Muamba can get back to playing again, we all just wanna see him recover from this. Cmon Fab you can do it.

[Ally]

the prem league must postpone the villa game on tuesday too.bolton's players will be in no fit state of mind to go out and play football.

They have.

Bolton-Aston Villa postponed after Fabrice Muamba collapse

Bolton's Premier League meeting at Aston Villa on Tuesday has been postponed amid concern over the health of Trotters midfielder Fabrice Muamba.

The 23-year-old is critically ill after suffering a cardiac arrest during Saturday's FA Cup tie at Tottenham.

A Bolton statement said: "The club would like to thank Aston Villa and the Premier League for their kind support and understanding at this time."

“He is a manager's dream in terms of his commitment to the team and to his club”

Villa said they had agreed to Bolton's request "without hesitation".

In a club statement, Villa manager Alex McLeish paid tribute to a player he managed at Birmingham City.

McLeish said: "He has always been a terrific lad, nothing other than the perfect professional.

"In my experience he trained every day the way he went to play in games, full of intensity and enthusiasm.

"He is a manager's dream in terms of his commitment to the team and to his club and I know that [bolton boss] Owen Coyle will feel the same way about him.

"My heart goes out to his family and it is overwhelming to think what they are going through right now."

Bolton's next scheduled game is at home to Blackburn on Saturday, 24 March.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...otball/17421875

Edited March 18, 2012 by Ally

[Guest York-owl-chris]

Life is scary sometimes.

You could be young, healthy, non smoker and all that and one day this could happen to you.

I hope he's okay, and to everyone who is going through this atm too

[darra]

Is it just me, or has this really highlighted how disgraceful it is when players throw themselves to the ground and roll around like they have been shot, when they have barely been touched?

Clubs and players should agree to clean this behaviour up, at the very least to show some respect to players who really are seriously injured and stand to lose their career / life

I hope Fabrice makes a full recovery, but I fear a big part of his life is now over which is a real shame

good point mate totally agree with you

[abrodie2002]

hoping abrodie can help out here.in what ways does induced coma help recovery like they have put fabrice in.

The medically induced coma is not related to his heart, this will be for the brain.

It is when the patient receives controlled dose of anaesthetic (like for an operation) to cause a temporary coma / deep state of unconsciousness.

The reason they do this is to reduce brain swelling by reducing cerebral blood flow (blood flow to the brain) and therefore reducing the metabolic rate of brain tissue. This usually happens when patients have swelling of the brain which is bad because the brain is in a closed box (skull) and has nowhere to expand to, this can cause direct damage but also compress blood vessels in the brain causing hypoxic damage (damage due to lack of oxygen to the brain cells).

Reducing the metabolic rate of the cells is important because (in layman's terms) a high metabolic rate means the cells need more oxygen and if this is in short supply, can cause more cell death due to lack oxygen.

Decreasing cerebral blood flow (to a suitable level) means less fluid, and therefore swelling, will accumulate in the brain tissue.

So the combined effect is that it allows the brain to rest and for swelling to settle down whilst trying to avoid ( / prevent further) brain damage. This technique in the past has prevented some (and sometimes all) brain damage from occurring.

[abrodie2002]

thank you abrodie was much appriciated.i just hope he pulls round and makes a recovery.are u optimistic now that he can pull through and live a normal life even if its not playing football.x

without knowing the details... i couldn't possibly say! Depends how much, if any, brain damage has occurred along with any long term problems with his heart.

Usually the brain can take up to 2 years after any trauma to improve. After 2 years it is highly doubtful of any further progress... so its not an overnight quick fix i'm afraid.

It would be impossible for me to say either way, but there is a chance that he could make a significant recovery to have a good quality of life.

[townend_owl]

News has come out that somebody has been arrested for racist comments made on Muamba's twitter page.

Utterly disgusting. Just thought i'd add that to the equation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17416472

[Taximark]

News has come out that somebody has been arrested for racist comments made on Muamba's twitter page.

Utterly disgusting. Just thought i'd add that to the equation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...-wales-17416472

That is beyond belief.

[Ally]

News has come out that somebody has been arrested for racist comments made on Muamba's twitter page.

Utterly disgusting. Just thought i'd add that to the equation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...-wales-17416472

Twitter has, at times, shown that there are some great people in this world. Unfortunately it also gives the idiots a platform to display their ugliness and show the depravity that exists in our society. This idiot is/was a University student! He was that intelligent he used his real name and named the University that he attends and the rugby team he plays for! He's tried to claim his account had been hacked but I saw a copy of his tweets which someone had saved and it showed the tweets over a longer period of time. I don't believe it had been hacked. I really don't understand what these people get from doing what they do. What kind of person revels in knowing their comments are making a fellow human being suffer more?

Unfortunately, this is becoming more and more common. You only have to see a few examples of the RT's people like Stan Collymore and Boy George receive.

The question is how can it be stopped?

[Sonny]

Probably been posted already, I dunno...

http://www.thedaisycutter.co.uk/2012/03/dear-scum-an-open-letter-to-the-sun/

Dear Scum,

At the time of writing this – 1am on Sunday morning – a 23 year old professional footballer is critically ill in intensive care at the London Chest Hospital. With every passing hour there is tentative hope although I have also read reports this evening stating that only a small percentage of individuals who require such resuscitation survive. I am fearful of the worst and fully expect to wake tomorrow to the news that Fabrice Muamba – an England Under-21 captain, father to a young boy, and someone widely said to be one of the nicest guys in football – has died.

Even this awful situation however is preferable to earlier when people were understandably under the assumption that he already had. 41 minutes into Bolton’s FA Cup tie with Spurs the midfielder collapsed to the turf and he stopped breathing. On several further occasions his heart failed and it is only due to the incredible work of the medical staff on hand that there is still a chance he may yet recover.

For such a terrible fate to befall a fit and healthy Premier League footballer during a match – and live on television no less – was obviously an extremely newsworthy circumstance. Those watching on ESPN looked on aghast, sharing the same sickening sense of helplessness that was evidently felt so acutely in the ground itself by both sets of supporters. Those without access to the channel hurriedly tuned into radio stations and clamoured onto social network sites and forums, to hear of developments and share their distress. As Rodney Marsh so succinctly put it on Twitter, the football family held its breath while up and down the country households discussed the horrifying events that were unfolding.

Many people prayed – religious or not – and there was a desperate collective will for the player to be okay. The reports however were not encouraging.

With the match rightfully abandoned and with no further visual aids the concerned public turned to other media sources to find out whatever we could, namely your own website, the BBC and Daily Mail websites, Sky Sports News and Radio 5.

The BBC updated its coverage minute-by-minute and did so in the sensitive and mature manner you would expect from them. They ran these updates beneath an archived photograph of the player.

The Mail’s piece contained pictures of the player receiving medical treatment – as did the Telegraph’s online news site – but crucially the stricken Muamba could not be seen through the huddle of doctors and medics. Additionally there were images of team-mates consoling each other and players praying on the pitch.

Covering such an awful occurrence – where a man’s life hangs in the balance – is, I should imagine, a delicate balancing act between providing a comprehensive account of what has happened and displaying suitable tact and discretion.

After all there will be many people who personally know the man. And with him being a famous footballer there will be many, many more who feel they know him. These individuals would be amongst the readers – his son perhaps, certainly his extended family and friends – desperately seeking out any news or statements, assurances or gut-wrenching confirmations from your sites.

Seeing their father, son, cousin, childhood friend, the player who once signed your shirt outside the Reebok Stadium, prone and possibly dead would be horrifying.

With this in mind I personally believe the BBC, the Mail and ESPN – who undoubtedly was under the most scrutiny of all – trod this delicate line of taste well all things considered.

I had no right to see that and you certainly had no right to publish it.

You however….and why is it always you?…..decided to dispense with basic human decency and go down the sensationalistic route. With Fabrice Muamba still en route to the hospital – and widely presumed deceased – you published a large clear photograph of the player prostate on the floor. His eyes looked shocked and confused.

I had no right to see that and you certainly had no right to publish it.

So why did I click on the link after being told by a stranger online that you had indeed printed a photograph in the worst possible kind of distasteful intrusion?

Because despite knowing for 37 years what a vile amoral publication you are – capable of the grossest acts of bullying, cruelty, lies and bile – I still couldn’t quite believe that you had the sheer gall to do so again.

Because it is fair to say that you have form here.

Your rag of sauce and hatred is still not bought in the Merseyside area twenty-three years after you ran with one of the most infamous and disgraceful untruths in the history of the British media. Four days after 96 football supporters were crushed to death at Hillsborough, and with a nation still numbed by shock and grief, you decided to splash ‘The Truth’ across your front page above sick and falsified claims that were anything but. Alleging in that sensationalistic way of yours that pertains to fact that fans picked the pockets of the dead, beat up a police constable who was attempting to give the kiss of life, and urinated on ‘brave cops’ you then vehemently stood by these surreal and outrageous falsehoods for many years. This caused not only intense pain and hurt to the bereaved and a city in need of comfort but also significantly derailed a fight for justice that continues to this day.

It polluted minds and ruined lives, a signature move of yours that once again made a mockery of your self-built image of being the paper of the common man. It’s a dichotomy that never fails to amaze – that you place such stock in representing the very people you quite evidently view as worthless scum. Us. The British public.

In 2005 your managing director Graham Dudman described it as ‘the worst mistake in our history’. This followed a front page apology that could well have been mumbled from a petulant teen. With no genuine remorse you intimated that the protracted ill-feeling in the north-west was orchestrated by the Trinity Mirror owned local press and pointed out that your editor – Rebekah Wade – was a 20 year old student at the time of the tragedy. ‘Time to move on’ you said. And with that Wade did move on. To eventually being involved with the hacking of a murdered schoolgirl’s phone.

We’re starting to see a pattern here irrespective of who sits behind the big chief’s desk. Kelvin Mackenzie – the editor directly responsible for propagating the Hillsborough lies – may be the one of the most despicable human beings to ever crawl upon this earth whilst your owner Murdoch might conceivably have been spawned by Satan himself but the common denominator is always you, the ‘super soaraway’ Sun.

With your boobies and lies and your cheeky facade hopelessly failing to mask a pious debasing rhetoric you have been a virulent disease in this country since 1963. In human form would any of your readers befriend you? Or would they see you for the spiteful, evil, rotten-to-the-core entity you truly are?

Was there any regret for your actions? Evidently not considering your decision today.

Your half-arsed and insulting apology for your Hillsborough fabrications came soon after you were the only newspaper to print a full and clear image of the stricken body of Marc-Vivien Foe as he lay dead on a pitch in Lyon, France. On international duty for Cameroon the 28 year old Manchester City midfielder suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and collapsed onto the turf.

City and West Ham fans – who thought the world of MVF – woke to see him deprived of dignity and splashed across your front page. His eyes looked shocked and confused.

Again you received widespread condemnation for doing this.

Was there any regret for your actions? Evidently not considering your decision today to once again prioritise numbers over decency by showing in graphic detail what might yet be the last moments of a young man’s life.

Being embroiled at the centre of the hacking scandal and the consequent Levison Enquiry it was hoped that you might change your ways. Hangdog contriteness by your owner and others in light of the shocking revelations suggested you might at least pretend to have a shred of value if only for a short while.

But we were idiots for even contemplating this weren’t we? Scum is scum and always will be. It is embedded in your DNA.

There is no doubt in my mind however that the tide is turning and though you might still reside folded on the dashboard of a considerable number of white vans the people of this country now demand and expect something that you are innately incapable of supplying in our media: decency. Just that. Basic human decency.

And should you ever fall – and please God make that day soon occur – and there is footage on the news of your HQ being emptied of boxes and staff I hope with every fibre of my being that I witness someone – whether it be a journalist or executive – walk down the steps into the evening light with a certain look on their face. For their eyes to look shocked and confused.

Yours Sincerely

Daisy Cutter

[townend_owl]

Twitter has, at times, shown that there are some great people in this world. Unfortunately it also gives the idiots a platform to display their ugliness and show the depravity that exists in our society. This idiot is/was a University student! He was that intelligent he used his real name and named the University that he attends and the rugby team he plays for! He's tried to claim his account had been hacked but I saw a copy of his tweets which someone had saved and it showed the tweets over a longer period of time. I don't believe it had been hacked. I really don't understand what these people get from doing what they do. What kind of person revels in knowing their comments are making a fellow human being suffer more?

Unfortunately, this is becoming more and more common. You only have to see a few examples of the RT's people like Stan Collymore and Boy George receive.

The question is how can it be stopped?

With more arrests. The more that happen the less people will be willing to risk it for that little giggle with their mates.

Collymore got somebody arrested not long back as well didn't he? Don't know what actually ended up happening to him, but still at least it is a start.

[Ally]

With more arrests. The more that happen the less people will be willing to risk it for that little giggle with their mates.

Collymore got somebody arrested not long back as well didn't he? Don't know what actually ended up happening to him, but still at least it is a start.

They probably just got a slap on the wrist and told " don't do that again".

They just add it to their conquests like chavs collecting asbo's.

What's needed is fines. Big fines. And hours of community service.

[peggyowl]

Wow great story mate.

Don't think anyone really cares whether Muamba can get back to playing again, we all just wanna see him recover from this. Cmon Fab you can do it.

I was there when it happened. Bloody horrible. Friend whose a paramedic and a friend whose a nurse worked bloody wonders fir 15 mins until ambulance service turned up.

Just got back from her return to sport. She is knackered but laughed a lot and showed real bottle by going back at it today.

Muamba is a lot fitter and younger than her and ill hold that hope for the lad.

[DeeeeeJ]

RIP Fabrice Muamba is trending on Twitter.

How do these people get poo like that nationwide?

[Ally]

nemesis, I reckon that would be an acceptable punishment too.

[Ally]

Real madrid have come out in their game with messages to Muamba and Abidal on their training tops. Touch of class

[TheEnchanter]

Real madrid have come out in their game with messages to Muamba and Abidal on their training tops. Touch of class

That's really good, well done Real.

[DeeeeeJ]

That was brilliant