Young dad notices worrying symptom on Apple Watch - then drops dead after football match

Jack Derbyshire, 27, from Tameside, was discovered unresponsive pursuing a shot lucifer helium played with friends connected Monday evening - aft learning of a bosom information earlier successful the year

A heartbroken mum has shared a poignant tribute to her lad who tragically collapsed and died aft playing football.

Jack Derbyshire, 27, from Tameside, Greater Manchester, was discovered unresponsive pursuing a six-a-side lucifer with friends connected Monday evening. Jack - who was acceptable to get married - is survived by his three-year-old daughter. His grief-stricken parent Lianne spoke of however helium 'loved life' and expressed her disbelief implicit her abrupt loss.

A question of donations has poured successful for a fundraiser acceptable up for his bereaved family. And successful honour of the avid Manchester City supporter, a tribute volition instrumentality spot astatine Saturday's crippled astatine the Etihad Stadium. Earlier this year, Jack learned of a bosom information erstwhile his Apple smartwatch indicated an irregular heartbeat.

Medical check-ups subsequently revealed that helium suffered from atrial fibrillation – a typically accelerated and sporadic bosom complaint – coupled with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), starring to an enlarged and weakened bosom muscle. He was undergoing aesculapian reappraisal for an interior defibrillator implant, arsenic disclosed by his mother, reports the Manchester Evening News.

An enthusiastic shot fan, Jack was adamant with his doctors astir not wanting to forgo playing football. Lianne told the Manchester Evening News: "They said helium didn't person to springiness it up completely. But they told him to halt erstwhile helium felt bushed and not to propulsion himself."

Lianne recalled however her lad had fixed up playing 11-a-side Sunday greeting shot but remained progressive by participating successful a six-a-side league helium founded. She explained: "He would play 5 oregon six minutes conscionable to support himself involved."

After 1 specified crippled connected Monday, Jack went backmost to his car portion his mates watched different lucifer astatine Curzon Ashton FC's Tameside Stadium. Tragically, erstwhile they returned, they discovered Jack collapsed and contempt their efforts to execute CPR and exigency services rushing to the scene, helium could not beryllium saved. Jack was an adjunct manager astatine McDonald's successful Denton, moving alongside his member Tom, 20. He lived successful Stalybridge with his fiancée Charlotte and their 3 twelvemonth aged girl Lyla.

The devoted City supporter, helium held a play summons with Tom and his begetter Peter, 52. Lianne added, "He perfectly adored his family," and "He doted connected his daughter. He conscionable loved life. He was a large euphony fan, large Oasis fan, large instrumentality of The K's. He loved going to gigs. He perfectly loved shot and helium had a play summons astatine City."

"It was his beingness and helium lived it to the full. I deliberation that's wherefore his bosom information affected him truthful much. He had written his Christmas database and astatine the apical helium enactment 'a moving heart'. It was heartbreaking really. We've had truthful galore beauteous messages from radical who worked with him oregon knew him and who person each had specified beauteous things to accidental astir him. We can't convey radical enough."

Meanwhile, a GoFundMe run has already gathered implicit £4,000 to enactment Jack's fiancée Charlotte aft his abrupt passing, acceptable up by her sister Shannon. The leafage shares the distressing news: "My sister received the astir heartbreaking and devastating quality of her beingness connected 18/11," it reads.

"Her fiancée and the emotion of her beingness Jack passed distant aft playing a crippled of football. Jack had been nether the cardiologist for a bosom information and helium collapsed aft the crippled and sadly helium didn't survive.

"It has near a monolithic spread successful everyone's lives particularly Charlotte and Jack's small miss Lyla who has mislaid her daddy. Charlotte is present grieving the nonaccomplishment of Jack and should beryllium capable to instrumentality arsenic overmuch clip arsenic needed earlier she feels acceptable capable to spell backmost to enactment without having to interest astir finances," it adds.