On the face of it, there isn't a lot that Adam Dodd, left-back at FC United, and Christian Eriksen, playmaking midfielder at Manchester United, have in common, but beneath the surface, they share a bond that has allowed them to return to the game they love.
Eriksen is thriving at United, playing the best football of his career for the biggest club of his life, just 18 months after suffering a cardiac arrest on the pitch while in action for Denmark during the European Championship.
The Dane's return to the game after being fitted with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) - which responds to life-threatening rhythms and can shock the heart to avoid cardiac arrest - was a story that gripped football, so when Dodd suffered his own brush with mortality last June, he knew there might be a way back.
