Death In The Afternoon
‘THERE are truly shocking pictures on the front of the papers this morning of Marc Vivien Foe, the Manchester City midfielder who collapsed and died during a match yesterday.
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The 28-year-old had a suspected heart attack towards the end of the Confederations Cup game between Cameroon and Colombia.
And the Sun shows the referee and two Colombian players frantically trying to summon medical help for the prone father-of-three.
The Mirror says Foe was walking unchallenged in the centre circle when his heart suddenly stopped. He collapsed and never regained consciousness.
He was carried on a stretcher off the pitch and to the medical room where doctors battled in vain for 45 minutes to revive him.
Meanwhile, the game carried on in his absence with his team-mates unaware until they came off the pitch that he was dead.
And even amid tragedy sport does carry on with Tim Henman powering through to the third round at Wimbledon.
Yet again, Henman is the lone British representative in the draw for either of the singles.
For him it is a case of ”business as usual”, but the Express hears him hold out some hope that his former coach David Felgate will turn things round.
”He has as good a chance as anyone because I know how brutally honest he can be and how tough he will be on some of the players,” he says.
”I’m sure it will be a shock to them, but we have got to break out of the rut we are in.”
Zimbabwe’s cricketers broke out of their rut yesterday as they recovered from 15-4 to overhaul England’s 191 in the first of the Nat West one-day internationals.
Grant Flower’s unbeaten 96 was the match-winning innings and prompts the Mail’s headline: ”England’s Weeds Are Shown up By Flower.”
But, despite an ”insipid” performance by England, Michael Vaughan has ruled out an emergency call to Graham Thorpe to boost the side’s batting.
However, he said he might drop down to No.5 in the batting order to try to lend experience lower down.
”Obviously I am a little bit worried, but we have inexperienced players and have got to give them a little leeway. But we have got to learn a little bit faster than we have been doing.”
This weekend’s match against South Africa would be a good time to start.
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Posted: 27th, June 2003 | In: Back pages Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
