He was able to walk from the pitch but doctors said that he collapsed again in the changing rooms and had to be given cardiac resuscitation before being taken to hospital where he remained on a life support system.

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Emergency-services experts say that in general odds of survival are reduced by 10% for every minute a person is collapsed from a sudden cardiac arrest without cardiopulmonary resuscitation or defibrillation.

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Despite faster emergency squads, deployment of automated defibrillators at airports and other public places, and improvements in cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques, fewer than 10% of the 300, 000 Americans who suffer cardiac arrest each year survive long enough to leave the hospital a rate that hasn't budged much over the years.

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"His legs and arms were intact he wasn't blown into a million pieces" but he lost a pulse and was in cardiac arrest, meaning his heart and circulation had stopped, so CPR, or cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, was started.

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