Another troubling incident has taken place at a game in England
In a season plagued by fans falling ill in the stands, yet another English football match was delayed because of a medical emergency – the second-tier match between Millwall and Nottingham Forest.
Just two weeks after a fan collapsed in the crowd during Tottenham’s Premier League trip to Watford, London club Millwall announced that kick-off in their Championship clash at home to Forest would be delayed on Saturday.
Mystified fans reacted with alarm on social media after the Lions revealed that the game at the Den, in the south of the capital, would be put back by ten minutes while medics attended to the stricken supporter.
Similar worrying hold-ups have become eerily frequent in English football this season, continuing into 2022 after rarely being witnessed in previous years.
Watford’s Vicarage Road was also the setting on December 2, when a member of the public had to be treated for 30 minutes and carried out after suffering the same ordeal.
Some observers said they were surprised by the unsettling pattern after watching football for decades without ever seeing a medical emergency.
Numerous high-profile health-related episodes have also seen players require treatment for unusually serious ailments on the pitch during matches across the 2021/22 campaign.
Premier League icon Sergio Aguero tearfully announced his retirement with a heart problem after he was forced out of a Barcelona game shortly after joining the Spanish giants.
Sweden defender Victor Lindelof left a Manchester United game prematurely when he suffered breathing difficulties, and Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen recently left Inter Milan because of a pacemaker-style device he had fitted after experiencing a cardiac arrest during a Euro 2020 match.
Yet another medical emergency in the stands at a football match today
