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Luton Town captain Tom Lockyer has shed caller airy connected the six-month wounded setback that delayed his instrumentality to the transportation aft suffering a cardiac apprehension successful December 2023.
Lockyer's bosom stopped for much than two-and-a-half minutes during a Premier League lucifer astatine Bournemouth earlier being restarted by medics. Seven months earlier, helium had besides collapsed astatine Wembley during the Championship play-off final.
The 30-year-old admitted that, aft being 'technically dead' during the incident, helium was relaxed implicit the imaginable of not being capable to proceed playing.
He was fitted with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) to modulate his abnormal bosom bushed and besides visited Professor Sanjay Shah, the cardiologist who helped Christian Eriksen with his comeback aft his cardiac apprehension astatine Euro 2020.
Lockyer was poised to play his archetypal lucifer for Luton's Under-21 broadside past December, lone to harm his ankle ligaments. He was past forced to acquisition 2 operations, the 2nd carried retired due to the fact that the archetypal had failed to close the issue.
Asked for his thoughts connected the setback portion guesting arsenic a pundit connected Sky Sports connected Saturday, helium said: 'Very challenging.
Luton Town skipper Tom Lockyer has opened up connected his six-month wounded setback
Lockyer is determined to proceed playing but is sidelined aft damaging his ankle ligaments
He suffered a cardiac apprehension during a Premier League crippled astatine Bournemouth successful December 2023
'I was adjacent to ticking disconnected my 3 games to get cleared heart-wise. Two days earlier the archetypal 1 I rolled my ankle successful grooming and ended up needing surgery.
'I got 2 months into that. The country wasn't a success, truthful I had to person it re-done. I'm six months successful present and hopefully retired of the footwear 1 day. We'll spot connected that one.'
Lockyer antecedently opened up connected his consciousness helium is entering his career's waning years, but vowed to springiness it everything to instrumentality and correspond Luton again.
He told BBC Sport Wales: 'Time's not connected my side, erstwhile you commencement pushing 30 you commencement reasoning the timepiece is counting down, tin this beryllium achieved?
'But I'm a affirmative person, I wouldn't beryllium wasting everyone's clip if I didn't deliberation that was possible. I'm going to springiness it my champion shot, but what volition beryllium volition be.'
Reflecting connected his cardiac apprehension portion connected ITV's Good Morning Britain, Lockyer vividly recalled believing helium could dice earlier medics saved his life.
He said: 'There was nary uncertainty this clip and I benignant of knew arsenic good which is wherefore erstwhile I started coming circular and I couldn't determination oregon speak, the unit determination connected tract were much successful "go-mode". They were focused and it was precise serious.
'That's erstwhile I was like, "wow, I could beryllium dying". Obviously erstwhile you're lying determination and you can't talk and can't move, it's not a bully feeling to have.
Lockyer posed with the aesculapian unit who saved his beingness by restarting his bosom connected the pitch
The defender had besides collapsed during Luton's Championship play-off last triumph successful May 2023
'But erstwhile I could determination and speak, I felt fine, which is the huffy thing. I wasn't successful immoderate benignant of pain. My bosom got backmost into bushed acknowledgment to the unthinkable aesculapian staff.
'I'm truthful fortunate it happened wherever it did due to the fact that if it was to hap extracurricular of infirmary oregon a shot pitch, the endurance complaint is lone 1 successful 10.'
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