Former Tottenham and Newcastle midfielder David Ginola spoke on Sky Sports about the importance of defibrillators.
The match between Newcastle and Tottenham at St. James’ Park was suspended in the first-half due to a medical emergency as players ran to get a defibrillator for a fan in the crowd.
Ginola, 54, received CPR himself in May 2016 as he participated in a charity match in France and suddenly collapsed from a cardiac arrest.
On the need for defibrillators at stadiums, the pundit said: “It is vital, it is vital because I hope the man or the woman is going to be fine.
“It brings back some weird memories. I’ve been talking to the lads, I haven’t been in the country for years doing that and you come back to the game and you have a heart-attack/issue in the stadium it’s been weird.
“We were watching a good game and all of a sudden it has been stopped with that.
“You said the defibrillator helps brilliantly, the fans in the stands to perform CPR helps massively. We all should be able to perform CPR to help each other.”
Ginola added: "To spread the message across it’s vital, you don’t know how often it happens. Every day you have people falling and dying from that, they are just near someone who knows how to treat.
"To perform if you have 80 or 90 percent of the population being informed how to perform CPR it will change lives."
