80s football legend has heart surgery after scary ‘episode’ while watching England

Liverpool fable and Sky Sports pundit Graeme Souness underwent exigency bosom country 2 weeks agone aft a scary ‘episode’ portion watching an England crippled astatine home.

Souness, 71, was diagnosed with coronary bosom illness astatine the property of 38 erstwhile helium underwent a triple bosom bypass.

In November 2015 helium was rushed to infirmary aft a bosom attack and the shot large suffered different wellness scare earlier this period portion watching England play connected TV.

Souness says helium ‘felt thorax pains’ arsenic helium went to marque a cupful of beverage astatine half-time of England’s 2-0 Nations League triumph implicit Finland connected September 10.

He has since had 2 stents fitted into 1 of his coronary arteries and, encouragingly, says helium is present feeling ‘great’.

However, the legendary midfielder has had to postpone a swimming and cycling situation helium was readying to undertake to rise wealth and consciousness for radical with a debilitating tegument information called epidermolysis bullosa (EB).

Speaking astir his caller wellness scare connected BBC Breakfast, Souness said: ‘I had a spot of an occurrence 10 days ago.

‘I was watching England play Finland, got up astatine fractional clip to marque a cupful of beverage and felt thorax pains. 

‘Without dwelling connected it, 3 days aboriginal I had a mates of stents enactment into 1 of my coronary arteries. 

‘I consciousness great. I’ve got a large cardiologist down successful Bournemouth, he’s looked aft maine for 15 years and I’m successful large hands.’

Souness has not lone go a regular pundit connected Sky Sports successful caller years but besides the vice-president of DEBRA UK, a foundation supporting radical with EB, besides known arsenic butterfly skin.

He has go adjacent friends with 16-year-old Isla Grist, who suffers from the condition, appearing alongside the teen connected respective TV channels to rise awareness.

DEBRA raised £5m past twelvemonth erstwhile Souness and a squad completed a 12-hour aquatics crossed the Channel.

Souness was readying to instrumentality connected different situation involving swimming the Channel some ways and cycling from Dover to London but has been forced to postpone owed to his caller wellness scare.

‘We are going to bash this situation adjacent year,’ Souness said. ‘I’m going to get backmost successful the h2o successful January and successful May we are going to bash the aquatics and we are going to bash the rhythm arsenic well.

‘People similar Isla, surviving with EB, look challenges and setbacks daily, yet they support going. Their carnal and intelligence spot is greater than immoderate hostile I’ve ever encountered connected the pitch.

‘We indispensable support going for them and we volition implicit this challenge.’

EB causes terrible and achy tegument blisters and Souness has described it arsenic the ‘cruellest illness retired there’.

Former Liverpool and Scotland skipper Souness has go a passionate foundation campaigner pursuing a vocation successful which helium made much than 350 appearances for the Anfield nine and earned 54 caps for his country.

Souness, present a respected pundit for Sky Sports, helped Liverpool triumph league titles successful 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983 and 1984 and European titles successful 1978, 1983 and 1984.

He is besides inactive celebrated astatine Rangers, wherever helium won 3 Scottish Premiership titles arsenic a subordinate and manager.

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