Clarke's heart 'stopped twice'!

[mortontheblade]

Clive Clarke's agent revealed a defibrillator was used after the Leicester defender collapsed at half-time in the match at Nottingham Forest.

The second-round clash was abandoned at the break after the 27-year-old had lost consciousness in the dressing room.

Clarke, who joined the Foxes on loan from Sunderland earlier this month, received treatment from paramedics at the City Ground but regained consciousness and was taken to hospital in Nottingham.

Agent Gary Mellor told BBC Radio Stoke: "Clive is sitting up and talking and he is going to have more tests at the hospital on Wednesday afternoon.

"They won't give us any idea as to when he will be released. They don't want to tell us any more until they know exactly what happened.

"It appears Clive's heart stopped twice and mouth-to-mouth didn't work so the paramedics had to use a defibrillator.

"His family are very upset, especially after what happened with the Sevilla player Antonio Puerta dying recently. We just hope he's going to be OK."

[Natty]

:(just read this thats bad, these players need lookin at wiv there hearts u dont know wats goin happen next. get well soon.

[NoCanariesAllowed (Ipswich'02)]

Yeah, heard about that. I was talking to my bro about the whole Puerta thing just before we went up to our seats. When I heard about the delay I was thinking "surely this can't be the same sort of thing", but it sounds like it was. From the moment when they called for the Leicester coach driver it was pretty obvious the game wasn't going to continue, particularly because one of my mates had texted me not long before saying Clarke was already in an ambulance. Calling it off at that point was definitely the best decision because there was no way that game could have been played as if nothing had happened following such terrible events in the break.

I've got to admit though, I can't understand why this sort of thing seems to be happening more in the last few years. Perfectly fit and healthy young men simply collapsing from heart failures is very strange. Marc Vivien-Foe a few years ago was probably the first example of such a dramatic collapse, but since then there's been a couple of players in Africa, South America, then Matt Gadsby at Hinckley, Puerta at Sevilla and now this - something which I'm sure Clarke and his family are all too aware of.

Get well soon, Clive.