Get the biggest City transfer window stories, analysis and updates delivered straight to your inbox The awful sight of Christian Eriksen fighting for his life on a football pitch shocked the world.
But while fans across the planet prayed for the Denmark star, and clung to the miracle recovery of former Bolton star Fabrice Muamba for hope, for Manchester City fans it brought back terrible memories of the shock demise of Marc-Vivien Foe.
And for French journalist Herve Penot, who knew Foe personally and was at the game when the big Cameroonian collapsed, it took him back 18 years to that awful day in Lyon, when he went to cover a football match and ended up sobbing his heart out as he wrote an obituary.
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