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I was technically dead for two minutes 40 seconds – Lockyer

Luton Town captain Tom Lockyer will attend his side’s game at Bournemouth to thank medics who saved his life after he suffered a cardiac arrest at the venue.

Lockyer, 29, collapsed on the pitch when the clubs met on 16 December.

The Premier League game was abandoned, with the re-arranged match taking place at the Vitality Stadium tonight (Wednesday).

Wales defender Lockyer has not played since his cardiac arrest. He was hospitalised for five days and was subsequently fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator.

He now wants to use his ordeal to help convince more people to learn CPR.

“Obviously I am forever grateful, realistically I am super lucky because if this didn’t happen on a football pitch there is every chance that I wouldn’t be here,” Lockyer told BBC Breakfast.

“The thought of that – leaving my girlfriend to raise our child on her own – is heart-breaking. That’s why it is important that, although this has happened to me and obviously it is a horrible thing to have to go through, the bigger picture is I want more people to start learning CPR.”

Click on this link to read more on this story and the play icon above to listen to Lockyer’s full interview with BBC Breakfast’s Sally Nugent.