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Stiliyan Petrov sad news
- Thread starter Falkor
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middletoenail
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Which one, Martin or Stylian?
Basil Fawlty
Don't Mention The War
One of the best Bulgarian midfielders who has graced the English game. Sad news indeed, hopefully he will recover quickly.
Tricky Dicky
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Just saw that on Twitter - sounds awful.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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Pray4Petrov
readingstockport
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Better still get medical help for him. That may help him survive, simply praying for him will just cause him to die.
HawkTheSeagull
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Sad news, hope he makes a full recovery
northernblue
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- Nov 24, 2010
- 248
Really sad this! Hope he can get better, not sure how much hope there is with acute luekimiea!
Brightonfan1983
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Marc1901
Peace out.
Ninja Elephant
Doctor Elephant
- Feb 16, 2009
- 18,855
Should this not be followed by a
smiley, or am I missing something? There haven't been dozens of Bulgarians to pick from. 
Joking aside, it is terrible news for the bloke and I wish him all the best in his recovery. I hope he is treated with dignity and not minutes worth of applause up and down the country.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,625
Am I the only one uncomfortable with all this "sad news" and minutes' applause stuff lately?
"Sad" news for me is when someone dies. Someone being ill is concerning news, but "sad" still seems a bit strong. While the laying of flowers at the Reebok for Muamba seemed almost morbid. A Talksport presenter tweeted today that "everyone should be praying for Petrov". I'm sorry, but no nonetity of a radio presenter tells me who I should and shouldn't pray for.
Don't get me wrong, I wish both Muamba and Petrov all the best, but some of the stuff surrounding their ordeals has been ridiculous. I'm sure Villa might offer some sort of show of support tomorrow but there's no need for every club to leap on the bandwagon. If I was in Petrov's shoes, I wouldn't want a minute's anything, as I still associate that with death.
"Sad" news for me is when someone dies. Someone being ill is concerning news, but "sad" still seems a bit strong. While the laying of flowers at the Reebok for Muamba seemed almost morbid. A Talksport presenter tweeted today that "everyone should be praying for Petrov". I'm sorry, but no nonetity of a radio presenter tells me who I should and shouldn't pray for.
Don't get me wrong, I wish both Muamba and Petrov all the best, but some of the stuff surrounding their ordeals has been ridiculous. I'm sure Villa might offer some sort of show of support tomorrow but there's no need for every club to leap on the bandwagon. If I was in Petrov's shoes, I wouldn't want a minute's anything, as I still associate that with death.
I managed to get 38 litres of unleaded today, thanks be to God.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,625
There are also (no doubt) players in the lower leagues who have life threatening diseases, but I'm not seeing waves of prayers for them. Or for the hundreds of thousands of "normal" people also suffering.
Yes, it's horrible for Stiliyan Petrov and Fabrice Muamba & their families, & let's hope they both make full recoveries. But they're no more or less important than any other suffering human being, and the world shouldn't stop, nor should people be made to feel guilty just because they haven't been SEEN to express their compassion. I keep seeing people tweeting celebrities begging them to send their regards to Petrov, FFS. If they want to do it, they will, not because some gormless Twitterer from Stowmarket says they should.
Yes, it's horrible for Stiliyan Petrov and Fabrice Muamba & their families, & let's hope they both make full recoveries. But they're no more or less important than any other suffering human being, and the world shouldn't stop, nor should people be made to feel guilty just because they haven't been SEEN to express their compassion. I keep seeing people tweeting celebrities begging them to send their regards to Petrov, FFS. If they want to do it, they will, not because some gormless Twitterer from Stowmarket says they should.
Falkor
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- Jun 3, 2011
- 5,673
- Thread starter
- #20
The one good thing to come of situations like these is it puts these conditions to the top of peoples memories a bit like when Jade Goodie died from cancer, so many women went and got checked after that and it saved many lives people that would never have bothered to get checks did.
Same with Muamba i lost my best mate to SADS was one of the worst days of my life but there is not enough known about issues like this, not enough heart machines around not many people know CPR which i think they should teach in year of school, it brings it to the front of peoples memories, my mate died in a restaurant people carried on eating while he was laying on the floor waiting for an ambulance, the first person to do CPR was his friend who was an on duty police officer at the time who got called to it, he had to give his mate of 22 CPR this was about 5mins after her collapsed as not one member of staff or person in the restaurant new CPR, and im talking a major chain restaurant. He came back 3 or 4 times for a few seconds maybe a min then would go again. The scariest thing there was nothing wrong with him he was a healthy young man who was in the police having a meal on his birthday, we could not bury him for a month as there was no reason why he died, the post mortems couldn't find a thing. His heart pure a simply stopped. Maybe if he got CPR quicker things could have changed who knows.
Same with Muamba i lost my best mate to SADS was one of the worst days of my life but there is not enough known about issues like this, not enough heart machines around not many people know CPR which i think they should teach in year of school, it brings it to the front of peoples memories, my mate died in a restaurant people carried on eating while he was laying on the floor waiting for an ambulance, the first person to do CPR was his friend who was an on duty police officer at the time who got called to it, he had to give his mate of 22 CPR this was about 5mins after her collapsed as not one member of staff or person in the restaurant new CPR, and im talking a major chain restaurant. He came back 3 or 4 times for a few seconds maybe a min then would go again. The scariest thing there was nothing wrong with him he was a healthy young man who was in the police having a meal on his birthday, we could not bury him for a month as there was no reason why he died, the post mortems couldn't find a thing. His heart pure a simply stopped. Maybe if he got CPR quicker things could have changed who knows.