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Seems to be a lot of it about these days. Fitba players in their prime suddenly collapsing. Latest being Carl-Erik Torp fae Brann who collapsed on the pitch, was carried off and then went in to cardiac arrest in the changing room. An air ambulance then landed on the pitch and took him back to Bergen, which was luckily in a small window of jist poor weather as opposed tae horrendous weather, allowing the helicopter in.

 

Whit happened in the auld days? Did fowk jist die on the pitch, or is this a bit of a new thing?

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOpRSDeeIpw

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Seems to be a lot of it about these days. Fitba players in their prime suddenly collapsing. Latest being Carl-Erik Torp fae Brann who collapsed on the pitch, was carried off and then went in to cardiac arrest in the changing room. An air ambulance then landed on the pitch and took him back to Bergen, which was luckily in a small window of jist poor weather as opposed tae horrendous weather, allowing the helicopter in.

 

Whit happened in the auld days? Did fowk jist die on the pitch, or is this a bit of a new thing?

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOpRSDeeIpw

 

Canna see the video.

 

Is he deid?

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Seems to be a lot of it about these days. Fitba players in their prime suddenly collapsing. Latest being Carl-Erik Torp fae Brann who collapsed on the pitch, was carried off and then went in to cardiac arrest in the changing room. An air ambulance then landed on the pitch and took him back to Bergen, which was luckily in a small window of jist poor weather as opposed tae horrendous weather, allowing the helicopter in.

 

Whit happened in the auld days? Did fowk jist die on the pitch, or is this a bit of a new thing?

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOpRSDeeIpw

It's a worrying trend i must say, far too many in the past 10 years.

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Marc Vivien Foe :(

Absolutely tragic. So glad i never saw that game, was crying for a while after seeing the story on the news. Although it might not have made a difference in the end but i remember the Cameroon manager saying he was going to sub Foe earlier as he looked tired. Bloody shame :(

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miklos feher died at benfica in 2004. just jogging along then drops dead.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZhRNMX7sOU

 

theres a tribute to him at the front door of the Estadio da Luz. The strip he was wearing behind glass with the EMTs having cut him out of it, then the shin guard that nuno gomes had let him borrow for the game since hed lost his ones...

 

shocking how suddenly it happens

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miklos feher died at benfica in 2004. just jogging along then drops dead.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZhRNMX7sOU

 

theres a tribute to him at the front door of the Estadio da Luz. The strip he was wearing behind glass with the EMTs having cut him out of it, then the shin guard that nuno gomes had let him borrow for the game since hed lost his ones...

 

shocking how suddenly it happens

Remember that one at the time, another tragic death.

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Turns oot Torp wis born wi a serious heart defect that went completely undetected for 27 years. As eh wid imagine is the case in Scotland, all top-flight players ower here need to have regular heart checks, and nothing wrong whatsoever showed up.

 

Apparently on the day, he'd been a bit off-brand, but nobody thought anything much of it. He was jist lucky that when his heart decided tae gie up the ghost, there were 2 heart-starting machines at the ground, and a rare break in the horrendous weather that prevails here at this time of year that allowed the helicopter tae get him tae hospital back in Bergen. Had he been at home, oot shopping or whitever, he'd be broon bread.

 

Kinda frightening in this day and age that these things jist happen, and no test ever picks them up.

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