Former England player Ray Wilkins critically ill after cardiac arrest

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Awful news posted on Sky & BBC websites an hour or so ago that Ray Wilkins is in an induced coma after cardiac arrest & a subsequent fall.
Best wishes to him & his family that he makes a full recovery.

https://news.sky.com/story/former week-england-player-ray-wilkins-critically-ill-after-cardiac-arrest-11310655

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43601801

 

[OldBlueLady]

An induced coma is quite common after a heart attack, just been through all this with my mother in law, who is still in hospital 2 and a half weeks on.

Always liked Wilkins, best wishes to his family and wishing him a good recovery.

 

[* ORM *]

Wilkins was a poor man's Kevin Maher! Wonderful player in an era where we were sadly lacking in international quality. If he was in his prime now he would thrive in the Premiership. I doubt the same could be said for someone like Bryan Robson.

Still plenty to give back to football if he recovers. I wish him well.

 

[AndyT]

Quite shocked to read this. He was only on SSN the other morning and I thought how well he looked for someone of his age.

I'm sure he played in Tilly's testimonial at RH a while back, otherwise I never actually saw him play, but always admired him as a decent bloke. There's a great link on youtube of him calming down some angry Millwall supporters :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbWIoTKW_Lg

Kudos! :thumbsup:

 

[Tinks]

It’s very sad to hear. Hopefully, he will pull through

 

[Firestorm]

Wilkins was one of the youngsters to break through when I was a young teenager, him and Steve Perryman , so I have always had an eye on his career.
IIRC In those days he was known as Butch Wilkins .

 

[ozzie]

very sad.
Seems a real nice bloke.Always liked him as a player..
The only timt i got the real hump with him was in the 86 world cup,when after Robson went of injured,he got himself sent off.
Keep fighting Butch,we all want you to pull through