Aston Villa's £50m-rated midfielder Jack Grealish sent Matt Dockray a personal message after reading his harrowing account of fighting the virus on Facebook.
Villa-mad Matt was told he would have to go on a ventilator and hadn't much chance of pulling through so he asked if he could put on the club shirt his wife had packed for him.
And when terrace favourite Grealish read the story behind his recovery, he was more than happy to personally send his best wishes.
Matt posted: “Had a pretty crap week this week and nearly ended up as a Holte Ender in the sky!! “Was told I would be going on a ventilator and not much hope of pulling through with a positive COVID test. “I asked to put my lucky Villa shirt on that my wife had put in my bag and,
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