Emil Palsson fell over in the 12th minute of the match against Stjordals-Blink at the Fosshaugane Campus stadium in western Norway.

Last night.

Via News9Live:

Icelandic midfielder Emil Palsson collapsed during a football game in Norway’s second division Monday evening after suffering a cardiac arrest, his football club Sogndal said.

“Emil Palsson had a cardiac arrest in the 12th minute of play. Palsson was successfully resuscitated, and then flown to Haukeland Hospital for further examination and treatment,” club Sogndal Fotball said in a statement.

In June, a similar event occurred when Denmark’s Christian Eriksen suddenly collapsed from a cardiac arrest during his country’s opening Euro 2020 game against Finland.

Emil Palsson: Footballer collapses from cardiac arrest during game in Norway (Independent.co.uk)

Footballer collapses from heart attack during game in Norway (News9Live)

Pic: twitter

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  1. Mr.T

    Nothing to see here, move along

    Young healthy sport stars have always been having heart attacks, its not rare at all to see tens of sports stars having sudden cardiac arrest in the same year.

    Don’t be such a conspiracy theorist, teenagers have always been getting myocarditis.

    Conspiracy loons, some children have always had heart trouble, its nothing new

    1. Bruncvik

      Back in 2013, I ran the entire Dublin race series for the first time. In the half-marathon, a lad in his 20s collapsed on the top of the hill by the Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park and later died of cardiac arrest. Another 20-something suffered a cardiac arrest and died after he crossed the finish line of the marathon. In 2015, a local lad in his 20s collapsed and died of cardiac arrest close to another half-marathon race in Phoenix Park. He has a shrine where he collapsed, and people leave their racing medals there. We call it “John’s tree”. Cardiac problems are not as common in sports as in general population, but with everyone else being disgustingly healthy, they are far more visible. I honestly don’t see anything unusual about a few such occurrences in football as well.

      1. Mr.T

        Its nothing new, however the rate has dramatically increased in the last 2 years.

        Cardiac care specialists all over the world are noting worrying increases in young men reporting with cardiac issues, the cardiac arrests we see in sport stars etc is just the tip of the iceberg.

        1. SB

          “…the rate has dramatically increased in the last 2 years”?
          Can’t be any of the vaccines then, that’s only been generally available for about 10 months. Covid, however, has been with us about 2 years.

      2. goldenbrown

        ah Bruncvik, sorry to disagree but there’s a BIG difference

        apples and oranges, these lads are at a different level altogether

        city marathons typically involve 10-20 thousand average joes of varying lifestyle histories who know basically nothing of their own personal physical and fitness profiles from a sport science perspective

        average joe runners perished in nearly every city marathon I ran back in the day, I certainly recall hearing of plenty

        a far more useful comparison would be to compare the ELITE athletes competing in those same city marathons

        they’re the lads who have sports science as part of their daily lives and know their bodies inside out, completely different animals to you or I average joes physically….and on that score I cannot name one single runner who had such an issue on any marathon I participated in

        1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

          it’s why you need an official all clear cert from the doc to run in France

      1. Cian

        A tweet from a random unnamed account that shows a context-free interview? Who is the interviewer? interviewee? how do you know he is a cardiologist?

          1. Cian

            Wow. your “proof” for a tweet from a random unnamed account that shows a context-free interview is a link to the same video this tome on a random unnamed Facebook account.

            The only difference is this Facebook page has attributed it to “Dr Peter A. McCullough”.

            Oh, and that has a link back to twitter to a third random unnamed account.

            Is this you “doing your own research”?

          2. Cian

            Wow. more links. this time to vimeo… who wants me to log in? Next.

            This is the quality of your evidence?… I suppose it explains a lot about your last two years of posts.

          3. jungleman

            lol, McCullough is clearly an antivaxxer. What’s the betting SOQ will disappear off to another tread without responding.

            I wonder do his loved ones know he literally spends his entire life promoting antivaxx and other alt-right agendas on an anonymous website.

          4. SOQ

            Is this sort of hate noise actually typed?

            I understand you have a devious socially challenged ‘tech guy’ in the back and at least one improv comedian as mods but it really is time to wax your bottom hole.

    2. Nigel

      Every few years someone would come on the radio and talk about the hidden scourge of fit young men collapsing and/or dying, sometimes while engaged in sport. That’s why they started putting defibirilators everwhere. If there are connections between incidents like this and the vaccines they need to actually be established, not asserted.

      1. goldenbrown

        you’re correct about establishing the data but sometimes when you hear quacking it is a duck. cardiac specific issues on the pitch during live top tier competitive matches? it’s rare Nigel, rare as tootle. at least it was until recently. here we are now almost expecting some incident every week. swathes of elite Prem and Championship league players not wanting to take a vaccine and their clubs doing their very best to talk about anything else, nonsense in the media from “experts” about poorly educated young lads with dumb ideas? well maybe they won’t be winning countdown this afternoon but I can tell you one thing they DO know is their conditioning their bodies and many of them could go toe to toe with the likes of Luke O’Neill on their sports science.

        as this escalates it’s most certainly a problem the vaccination PR machine

        1. Nigel

          It’s certainly red meat to the anti-vaxx disinfo machine, but it’s still a whole lot of supposition. If it’s the vaccine, to be clear, we need to know and young men in that position need to get appropriate medical advice and information, which they clearly need to be getting anyway, whatever the cause or causes. I wish we weren’t barking back and forth along culture war lines but along pragmatic ‘what is happening and what should we do about it?’ lines. Which reminds me, I need to renew my first aid cert.

          1. SOQ

            That myocarditis is an acknowledged vaccine injury is not disinformation, quite the opposite, The only remaining question is, how common is it, espcially over a prolonged period of time?

            John Campbell could hardly be described as an ‘anti vaxxer’ and even he is complaining about the lack of data surrounding vaccine injuries.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOyB2PyRf-k

          2. Nigel

            If vaccine related myocarditis is a contributory factor in this and other cases then that needs to be known and quantified. Maenwhile you can run around with your hair on fire if it makes you feel better.

          3. SOQ

            The title of the video is “Severe illness after vaccination” and John starts by saying “I want to talk today about people who get severely ill after vaccination…”

            What do you think it is about? Flower arranging?

          4. Cian

            @SOQ

            Sweet Holy Jeebus. You just read the title and not watch the “proof” you provide.

            Well I did watch it, and he isn’t talking about vaccine injuries, he is talking about vaccinated people that are hospitalised with Covid.

            I now remember why I stopped clicking on the YouTube links you provide to “support” your arguments… they are a waste of time.

          5. SOQ

            His opening words- ” I want to look today at people who get severely ill and hospitalised and can even die after VACCANATION…” He then uses a study from the US because there is so little data in UK.

            Have you been smoking some of Johnny’s weed or something?

          6. Cian

            Did you watch the whole video?

            Summarise it for us.

            Link to the bit where he talks about vaccine injuries or myocarditis. Go on.

            (hint: you can’t becasue he is talking about vaccinated people that are hospitalised/died with Covid.)

  2. Broadbag

    The GAA initiative to supply clubs with defibrillators started in 2007, they were just doing it for the craic then I suppose, or else they had a premonition of THE DREADED VAX of 2021.

    1. uh-oh

      Having being involved in that program and other sports programs through a voluntary org I work for, of the 18 (I think) AEDs that I have a hand in organizing, there has been about 4 uses involved in sports settings over the last decade, 3 good outcomes, 1 unsuccessful. This covers a relatively small sample size of the athlete population in this country. The ages were young to old. The one I actually ended up pushing the button on was a super fit individual.

      Cardiac arrest in sport happens, that 2 happen to be in the news within a year, does not show some sort of Covid Vax related plague. Bodger, your views are well known on the vax topic, but this one is a stretch too far I feel…

  3. Fergalito

    Yeah, i tend to agree that the assertions/implications of what’s shared above are specious without clear evidence. The term “Sudden Adult Death” syndrome has been around and in the ether for a long time now and the points about the prevalence of defibrillators are well made.

    While concern is valid, shoe-horning amorphous anecdotes into an “I told you so” cause and effect narrative is unsound and just sets the stage for another day of the usual rigmarole.

  4. Pat

    I don’t think even Bodger was really buying the conspiracy woo woo on this one. Poor crathur couldn’t even summon up a “Hmm” or a “Um”!

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