When ex-Derby footballer Mark O’Brien sat watching Christian Eriksen’s terrifying health scare live, it “frightened” the Irishman into turning his TV off.
O’Brien was preparing for his second open heart surgery which had forced him to quit the game when Eriksen went down at Euro 2020 last summer.
Now remarkably eight months after suffering a cardiac arrest playing for Denmark against Finland, Eriksen is back playing football.