A man whose heart stopped for 28 minutes while playing football was saved by a nurse on the opposition team.
John Harkin, 35, was playing for Old Xaverians FC against Larkin FC at Barnham Drive in Childwall on March 18 when he suffered a cardiac arrest. He was kept alive by an opposition player and a heart specialist, who happened to be passing the playing fields.
His heart stopped for 28 minutes but was revived with the help of a defibrillator at the side of the pitch and taken to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in an ambulance. John, an English teacher at Maricourt High School in Maghull, almost died in hospital and spent a week in intensive care.
