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A collapse due to cardiac arrhythmia and a prolonged cardiac arrest within seven months – and yet Welsh defender Tom Lockyer is hoping for a return to professional football. “If there is any chance I can play again,” the captain of Premier League promotion team Luton Town explained in a TV interview more than two months after his second and life-threatening collapse in a league match, “I would love it if To do. I wouldn’t write it off just yet.”
However, the 29-year-old is aware of the lengthy rehabilitation leading to a possible happy ending 2.0: “It is still far too early to say anything about a comeback or even a time before that. First and foremost, only the doctors on our medical staff and other medical specialists make decisions about me. A lot of research and testing will have to take place.”
The Luton Town captain was dead for almost three minutes
Lockyer collapsed due to cardiac arrest on the pitch during a visit to AFC Bournemouth on the third weekend of Advent. Last May, the defender collapsed on the pitch in the Premier League promotion play-off against Coventry City due to a generally less life-threatening atrial fibrillation.
In contrast to the first emergency, after which the doctors had already inserted a pacemaker into the defender, Lockyer himself found the incident shortly before Christmas, immediately after his successful resuscitation, to be highly dramatic. «When I woke up again, I immediately felt that it was different from May: then it was as if I woke up from a dream – the second time there was simply nothing. I remember the thought that I was going to die and the relief of being alive when I could speak again.”
Lockyer does not associate his own observations with the 2:40 minute cardiac arrest measured by his pacemaker during the second collapse: “I practically died, but everything related to that feels numb.” (AFP)
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team
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SP
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T.D
|
PT
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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1
|
 Liverpool F.C
|
25
|
35
|
57
|
|
|
2
|
 Arsenal F.C
|
25
|
36
|
55
|
|
|
3
|
 Manchester city
|
24
|
31
|
53
|
|
|
4
|
 Aston Villa
|
25
|
19
|
49
|
|
|
5
|
 Tottenham Hotspur
|
25
|
14
|
47
|
|
|
6
|
 Manchester United
|
25
|
1
|
44
|
|
|
7
|
 Brighton & Hove Albion
|
25
|
8th
|
38
|
|
|
8th
|
 Newcastle United
|
25
|
12
|
37
|
|
|
9
|
 West Ham United
|
25
|
-8th
|
36
|
|
|
10
|
 Chelsea F.C
|
25
|
1
|
35
|
|
|
11
|
 Wolverhampton Wanderers
|
25
|
-1
|
35
|
|
|
12
|
 Fulham F.C
|
25
|
-7
|
29
|
|
|
13
|
 AFC Bournemouth
|
24
|
-13
|
28
|
|
|
14
|
 Brentford FC
|
24
|
-8th
|
25
|
|
|
15
|
 Nottingham forest
|
25
|
-12
|
24
|
|
|
16
|
 Crystal Palace
|
24
|
-16
|
24
|
|
|
17
|
 Luton town
|
24
|
-13
|
20
|
|
|
18
|
 Everton F.C
|
24
|
-6
|
19
|
|
|
19
|
 Burnley F.C
|
25
|
-30
|
13
|
|
|
20
|
 Sheffield United FC
|
25
|
-43
|
13
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Source : Blick
I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.
