Clive Clarke - how is he?

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Only what MM said yesterday on the OS. ;)
 
I assume he's just recovering in hospital. I'm sure we'd only really get updates if his condition worsened.
 
This from This is the sentinel. ;)

CLARKEY'S HAVING A MOAN - THAT'S A VERY GOOD SIGN

09:30 - 02 September 2007

Clive Clarke's closest friends feared the worst when they first heard of his mystery collapse in front of shocked Leicester City colleagues this week.Gary Mellor, his agent and personal confidante for the best part of a decade, was watching the Carling Cup tie at Wolves when he took a phone call from Leicester boss Martin Allen.

"He was quite emotional," recalls Mellor. "He was asking for his next of kin and thought he was a gonner. But then the chief executive of Leicester rang me and said Clive was vomiting in the ambulance, which was a good sign.

"I was sat with Tony Pulis at Wolves and he offered to drive me straight back to Staffordshire to start sorting things out.

"Clarkey was one of my first players. I have always been more than just an agent to him, so it's obviously been an upsetting few days.

"It's been especially hard on his wife, Sally, and their 15-month old daughter, while Clarkey's parents have obviously flown in from Ireland.

"I've been to see him in hospital myself and he's able to walk around with one of those hospital gowns on and a drip attached to his arm.

"There is still a long way to go in his recovery, of course, but the good news is that he did a bit of moaning while I was there. That's always a good sign with Clarkey. "

He revealed that Stoke might have re-signed Clarke themselves before he joined Leicester on loan from Sunderland earlier this month.

But his career is now taking a firm back seat as attention is focussed on first establishing the cause of his heart stopping twice, then restoring him back to full health.

"We are just taking it one day at a time," says Mellor. "The priority at the moment has got to be his health and his family.

"He's undergone three days of tests to try and find the cause, but it remains a mystery.

"I can't understand it. He's always been fit and has undergone rigorous medicals without problems at West Ham, Sunderland and Leicester since leaving Stoke.

"He's been strapped to heart monitors and all sorts during that time, but nothing has shown up before now.

"Since being at Leicester they've had various fitness tests, and Clarkey was deemed to be in the top two or three fittest at the club. The whole thing is a mystery."

There was certainly no hint of the trauma to come as the Leicester players filed into their dressing room at half-time when 1-0 down at Forest in a cup tie destined to be abandoned in the circumstances.

"He was so lucky this happened in a game and not a training session," added Mellor, "because on Tuesday there were the paramedics and the defibrillator on hand to save him."

Leicester defender Patrick Kisnorbo was sitting next to Clarke when he first collapsed.

"He just stopped breathing," recalled Kisnorbo. "There was no pulse and then he turned white. We didn't think he was going to recover.

"Moments after he hit the floor our phsyio rushed in and called for a defibrillator. First he tried mouth-to-mouth, but he still had no pulse.

"All I could think of was his family and how they would feel if he didn't make it. I hope I never see anything like it ever again."
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I was sat with Tony Pulis at Wolves and he offered to drive me straight back to Staffordshire to start sorting things out.
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From Wolverhampton? Geography not Pulis's strong point then :icon_bigg

But good to hear he's doing OK
 
From the BBC. ;)

I'm lucky to be here, says Clarke

Clarke is on loan at Leicester from Premier League Sunderland
Leicester defender Clive Clarke said that he feels lucky to be alive after collapsing at half-time during a game at Nottingham Forest on Tuesday.

Clarke, 27, was admitted to hospital after collapsing during the interval of the Carling Cup tie.

"I know I am extremely fortunate to be here," said Clarke.

"In the light of recent events involving footballers who have suffered heart attacks, I am the real lucky one, because I have survived."

The match at the City Ground was abandoned and will now be played on Tuesday 18 September.

Clarke's agent Gary Mellor said the player was treated with a defibrillator in the dressing-room.

Clarke, on loan at Leicester from Sunderland, had regained consciousness by the time he was taken to the nearby Queens Medical Centre in an ambulance.

And Clarke added: "I remember feeling a bit lethargic on the field in the first half, and I was involved in a collision with our goalkeeper Paul Henderson, which led to their goal.

"I sat quietly in a corner of the dressing room and felt a bit queasy. I can recall Patrick Kisnorbo talking to me, but it wasn't really registering. Then I just passed out.

"When I was told what had happened, the blood drained from my body. I just thought I could have been dead, and that I might never have seen my family again.

"When you think about Sevilla player Antonio Puerta (who collapsed last Saturday and died on Tuesday), it goes without saying that a day won't pass when I don't cherish every moment in my life."
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Interview with Clive on Sky Sports News - they'll play it again soon.
Doesn't say whether he's going to play again or why it happened though.
 
LCFC 4 life said:
Bit of the interview here
http://www.skysports.com/football/team/0,,11712,00.html
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Clive Clarke admits he feels 'a hell of a lot better' following his recent double heart failure.

The defender collapsed during half-time of Leicester City's Carling Cup second round tie at Nottingham Forest late last month.

The Irishman, who was on loan at Leicester from Sunderland, concedes he is not yet 100 per cent, but is feeling much improved.

"I feel all right," Clarke told Sky Sports News. "Obviously I'm still not 100 per cent, but I feel a hell of a lot better than I did two weeks ago.

"It was a hard couple of days afterwards, trying to understand what happened, and then obviously hearing from people in the room what happened.

"It was a bit surreal."

Frightening

Clarke admits he remembers little about the incident, but acknowledged he is 'very lucky' to still be alive.

He added: "I just remember coming off at half-time and I went into the changing room. The next thing I know I'm in the back of an ambulance.

"I've been told (what happened) and obviously I'm a very lucky person to be here now.

"It's something you never prepare yourself for in football, you think you're fitter than the normal man in the street.

"You expect a broken leg or a bad knee, but you always think your heart is in good order. To hear what happened was a bit frightening."
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Nice to hear that he was at the game today. Nice too to see the QPR lot clap that bit of news too.
 
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