He did in fact die. I recall that a Buddhist Monk, a Rabbi and Archbishop Makarios of Nicosia administered prayers and last rites on the pitch to no avail.
Sharpe (Lazarus) recovered to play a number of games that season and also write a book titled " I wished I played for Palace". it sold 3...
By all accounts the Glaziers, Roy Toffley scythed a Burnley player in half in the 1922/23 season. George Arbuthnot missed several games and left the field to raucous and callous whistles by the Old Stamping Shed terrace at Stoats Nest field. Good gosh, where do we take this?
"It's not Palace's fault that a number of marble playing billy boys jumped over the turnstiles injuring stewards and denying other pillock fans their seats for the game. It's Brighton's fault as they did not have higher barriers and did not know how much Disney loves his black clothed billy boys"