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Muamba: survival more than a miracle

22 April 2012 - 10:42

Fabrice Muamba's has labelled his remarkable recovery as being "more than a miracle". The Bolton midfielder collapsed during a Premier League match with Tottenham at White Hart Lane, and was effectively dead for 78 minutes.

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"Some one up there was watching over me. What happened to me was really more than a miracle," said the former Arsenal player.<br />

"That was it. Blackness, nothing. I was dead.&nbsp;It wasn't normal dizziness - it was a kind of surreal feeling like I was running along inside someone else's body."<br />

Muamba revealed that after 41 minutes, he felt no pain in his chest but started seeing double, and realised that he had begun feeling dizzy.<br />

"I had no pain whatsoever. No clutching at my chest or tightness like you see when people have heart attacks in movies. Just an odd feeling that's impossible to explain. Then I started to see double. It was almost like a dream.<br />

"I just felt myself falling through the air and then felt two big thumps as my head hit the ground in front of me then that was it. Blackness, nothing. I was dead."

Written by Samuel Turnbull