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FFS, I was taking the piss.

 

No doubt 'the football community will come together at this difficult time'.

 

Cue Villa fans desperately looking out cardboard and streamers for a display to 'show their support for Petrov', as well as interminable chanting of STIL-IAN-PET-ROV, at the game tomorrow.

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For some reason I knew before I opened this thread that it would be in relation to a serious illness.

 

Premonition, spooky.

 

This is as sad as the news that every other person who has a serious illness has to cope with, I'm praying for each and every one of them, even though I'll be guilt tripped into putting Petrov on a serious illness pedestal shortly, meantime, I'm just shocked and saddened that people get ill at all, needless.

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Obviously, hope he's all right. My cousin had leukaemia so I feel for the guy, hopefully he'll pull through like my cousin did :thumbup1:

 

This, however, will just turn into a newpaper selling, pray for him because he's famous load of pish. Hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with it, but just because they aren't celebrities "we", the public, don't bat an eyelid.

 

Makes me sick really.

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Remember when his name was Stan?

 

That's because the good people of Glasgow could not pronounce Stilian.

 

Same us Artur becomes 'Arthur' byraway, wee Peter Huistra (whose real name is Pieter), big George Albertz/Cadete etc etc.

 

Basically they are thick as fuck.

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Remember when his name was Stan?

 

TWITTER REACTION

 

Aston Villa goalkeeper Shay Given: "In shock about Stiliyan Petrov acute leukaemia but we are all here for him and his family. Please God he makes a full recovery #prayforstan."

 

Aston Villa striker Darren Bent: "Really sad news to hear about our captain Stan Petrov. Hopefully he'll be back fighting fit soon. Thoughts are with him and his family. KTF."

 

Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas: "Just saw the news about Stan Petrov one of the nicest guys in football! Thoughts with him and his lovely family."

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TWITTER REACTION

 

Aston Villa goalkeeper Shay Given: "In shock about Stiliyan Petrov acute leukaemia but we are all here for him and his family. Please God he makes a full recovery #prayforstan."

 

Aston Villa striker Darren Bent: "Really sad news to hear about our captain Stan Petrov. Hopefully he'll be back fighting fit soon. Thoughts are with him and his family. KTF."

 

Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas: "Just saw the news about Stan Petrov one of the nicest guys in football! Thoughts with him and his lovely family."

Bent and Jenas comments were fair enough, Shay Givens jumping on the old "prayfor<whoever>" band wagon though.

 

Praying does fuck all.

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Nobody can say for certain whether 'Pray(ing)4Muamba' made any difference.

 

There was no non-placebo experiment with near death experience to draw comparison.

 

So it's hard to say what effect praying has, my suspicion is none, but admittedly this has no experimental validity.

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Nobody can say for certain whether 'Pray(ing)4Muamba' made any difference.

 

There was no non-placebo experiment with near death experience to draw comparison.

 

So it's hard to say what effect praying has, my suspicion is none, but admittedly this has no experimental validity.

Richard Dawkins talked about an experiement where they had x amount of patients having heart bypass surgery

 

1/4 of them were told that they would be prayed for, and they had a group of people to pray for them.

1/4 of them were told that they would be prayed for, but they weren't.

1/4 of them weren't told or prayed for

The final 1/4 were prayed for, but weren't told.

 

apparently:

researchers found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery patients had no effect on their recovery. In fact, patients who knew they were being prayed for had a slightly higher rate of complications.
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