Muamba’s dad tells son: They stopped the match for you

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2012 by The Sun

Hope ... Fabrice Muamba

BEWILDERED Fabrice Muamba asked why Bolton's FA Cup tie at Spurs had been abandoned — and was told by his dad: "Because of you."

Pals of the Wanderers midfield ace, who collapsed with a cardiac arrest during Saturday's game, said he had no idea where he was when he came to in a hospital bed.

His father Marcel asked him if he knew who he was. Family friend Aime Esalo revealed: "Fabrice said 'Yes' and the next thing he asked was, 'Did we lose?'

"He was told the match was called off while the two teams were drawing 1-1. Fabrice asked why they had stopped it and his father said, 'Because of you'."

Mr Esalo told how Muamba, who continued to make encouraging progress yesterday, also asked for his fiancée Shauna Muganda when he regained consciousness on Monday.

But the couple's son Joshua, three, was not there.

Muamba, 23, was saved from death by CPR — cardiopulmonary resuscitation, pumping the chest to create artificial blood circulation — given on the pitch during the televised quarter-final tie.

And today The Sun is launching a campaign calling for such life-saving skills to become part of the national curriculum in schools, so kids learn how to help in an emergency.

They should also know sudden cardiac arrests are DIFFERENT from heart attacks.

The former can occur in the young and healthy if the heart goes into a dangerous rhythm.

Heart attacks are caused by blocked arteries often linked to old age or unhealthy lifestyles.

Muamba remained in intensive care at London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green yesterday.

Doctors said he had been "very fortunate" to pull through as fewer than one in five cardiac arrest victims survive and most suffer brain damage.

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