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"Is there a doctor in the house?" Wonderful. Fingers crossed. Pulls everything into perspective.

Shankly was just a bit off.

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Frosty

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Hugely relieved just to hear he is still alive. I was at the game and it was a really awful sickening thing to see. It was frightening enough just to see him down with medics around him hitting him with the defibrilliator, but when 5 minutes later you could still see them desperately administering CPR everyone was fearing the worst. It was really sickening, it felt like I was watching someone die which really, really wasn't what I wanted to see this morning.

When he was stretchered off I felt a little bit of relief because I didn't think they would move him while he was still under, then everyone started hearing that he still wasn't breathing in the tunnel :( .

I can say that the fans on both sides behaved admirably, both sets chanting his name and there was no complaint when the game was called off. Worth remembering as well that no one in the stadium really had a clue what was going on, there was no announcements before or after the one informing us the game was over. If anything everyone was just desperate for them to say he was OK or something.

However one cretinous idiot did make the typical reaction to a player being on the deck with an incredibly insensitive comment. I'm sure he feels awful for it now, but seriously, football fans it is a fucking game and even in the heat of the moment never wish ill on a player because it might just be an incident like today's.

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Frosty

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Such a moving pic.

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Both sets of players were visibly shaken by what was going on. I think that no matter what the game would have had to be abandoned, no way were they in any condition to play on. Several in tears, Jermain Defoe was standing over him for quite a while with BAE and looked like he was going to be sick.

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Only just heard about Muamba - real shock for a player of 23 years old and I sincerely hopes he pulls through.

I applaud the Spurs fans who it appears were superb and abandoning the match was easily the right decision - it does not matter who you support when something like this happens.

This brings back terrible memories for me of when a similar thing happened to Marc Vivien-Foe who played previously for West Ham - just awful and he was one of the fittest players Harry Redknapp had ever seen. I hoped I would never see a similar incident again in football.

Let's hope we have some good news soon.

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Couple of nice articles about him on Guardian footy;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/17/arsenal-fabrice-muamba

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/17/fabrice-muamba-bolton-wanderers

Hope he pulls through. Sounds like a really nice guy.

On a slightly more cheerful but not surprising note, Messi scored another sublimely nonchalant goal against Sevilla. A nutmeg and brilliant lob.

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Swansea's second against Fulham was terrific. They must have made 40 passes in the build up. Looking at the table, they're likely to stay up and I hope they keep hold of Brendan Rogers as he's built such a good side.

Plymouth won yesterday 1-0 and we're back out of the bottom two in League 2. Chuffed to bits in the pub after the game but then we saw what had happened to Muamba - totally shocking and horrible and the entire pub just went silent for about ten minutes. I was playing in a six-a-side tournament when I was twelve and our manager died of a heart attack at the side of the pitch - everyone was numb for days afterwards. Ron Hart was his name and he was a legend in local junior football. Watching someone fighting for their life is so harrowing :( and it just puts everything into perspective as football is just a game.

I'm glad the fans reacted the way that they did.

Some sick twisted cunts out there

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Swansea's second against Fulham was terrific. They must have made 40 passes in the build up. Looking at the table, they're likely to stay up and I hope they keep hold of Brendan Rogers as he's built such a good side.

Plymouth won yesterday 1-0 and we're back out of the bottom two in League 2. Chuffed to bits in the pub after the game but then we saw what had happened to Muamba - totally shocking and horrible and the entire pub just went silent for about ten minutes. I was playing in a six-a-side tournament when I was twelve and our manager died of a heart attack at the side of the pitch - everyone was numb for days afterwards. Ron Hart was his name and he was a legend in local junior football. Watching someone fighting for their life is so harrowing :( and it just puts everything into perspective as football is just a game.

I'm glad the fans reacted the way that they did.

Some sick twisted cunts out there

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I thought the Jacks would do pretty well and stay up, but not do as well as they have done.

I suspect they'll slip down the table a bit (or not), but has any 'new to the prem' newly promoted team done as well as they have for a long long time?

Can't see it happening at the moment - but I'd love just one season of us both being in the Prem. Even with all the big teams to play - I think I'd look forward to the derby more than any game bar Man U (as I've not seen us play them)

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Charliemouse

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I thought the Jacks would do pretty well and stay up, but not do as well as they have done.

I suspect they'll slip down the table a bit (or not), but has any 'new to the prem' newly promoted team done as well as they have for a long long time?

Can't see it happening at the moment - but I'd love just one season of us both being in the Prem. Even with all the big teams to play - I think I'd look forward to the derby more than any game bar Man U (as I've not seen us play them)

Reading finished 8th in their first season in the Prem back in 2006-2007.

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Oh Danny Boy

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the depressing thing is that they will never be given a chance to improve on this season if the past tells us anything. Both Wigan and Reading in recent times had very impressive debut seasons in the premiership and soon found themselves struggling as their best players were nabbed by the more established clubs. I hope that i'm wrong and that Swansea are able to have the chance to build upon this first season.

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I think we will be different. Mainly because we've just continued playing to our ethos and we won't change for any team. Teams tend to fail after initial success because they change the way they play or they go out and make marquee signings that don't fit the team style.

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The onset of HD has a massive downside in that we have to put up with the deformed donut face of Adrian Childs. His features are only trumped by the garbage that spews forth from his lips, earlier barely able on to read out some scores when the slick ITV team couldn't get them to appear on screen.

Our only saving grace is that ITV do not broadcast in 3D. The horror.

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