Muamba: I was just running along, I felt dizzy, my vision started to go... and then I felt myself falling

Fabrice Muamba has spoken for the first time about the horrifying moment he collapsed and 'died' on the pitch. The Bolton midfielder, 24, insisted he had not felt unwell before his heart stopped and he crashed to the ground in the 41st minute of a televised FA Cup tie at Tottenham on March 17.
Muamba was effectively dead for 78 minutes and it took 15 defibrillator shocks - two on the pitch and 13 in the ambulance - to get his heart beating again. Speaking to The Sun, he said:

'I ran upfield to try and get on the end of a cross from Martin Petrov on our left wing and as I ran back into midfield I felt very slightly dizzy.

'It wasn't a normal dizziness - it was a kind of surreal feeling like I was running along inside someone else's body.

'Then I made another burst forward and noticed it again. Then my vision started to go. I had no pain whatsoever. No clutching at my chest.Then I started to see double. It felt almost like a dream. There was no one anywhere near me when I started to feel myself falling.

'The last thing I remember was our defender Dedryck Boyata screaming at me to get back and help out in defence. I just felt myself falling then I felt two thumps as my head hit the ground in front of me then that was it. Blackness, nothing. I was dead.'