Colm Prunty

Hearts

January 14, 2022 | 0 Minute Read

What’s going on with everyone’s hearts? I’m mostly seeing this in the context of football, but is that just the most high profile?

Four Premier League games have been suspended for a period in the last three months because a fan collapsed in the stands. I don’t remember this ever happening before now. One in October, two on the same day in December and one a couple of days ago. I don’t necessarily know that these are all heart-related I suppose.

Player-wise the most obvious is Christian Eriksen, but Sergio Aguero retired for a heart problem, and I didn’t even realise that a Mali player had a heart attack on the pitch last week, or that John Fleck at Sheffield Utd collapsed on the pitch in November and then just today Aubameyang is out of an Afcon game for heart lesions, whatever those are.

Weird.