Tom Lockyer 提起する／ポーズをとるs with the 医療の staff who saved his life as Luton captain returns to the scene of his cardiac 逮捕（する） at Bournemouth... while Cherries are あられ／賞賛するd for 'class' programme gesture

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Luton captain Tom Lockyer 提起する／ポーズをとるd with the Bournemouth medics who saved his life on Wednesday after returning to the Vitality Stadium for the first time since 苦しむing a cardiac 逮捕（する） on the pitch in December.

Lockyer 崩壊（する）d during the Cherries' home match against Luton last year and was technically dead for two minutes and 40 seconds before his heart was 再開するd by paramedics.?

Ahead of the 繰り延べるd fixture on Wednesday,?Bournemouth?chose to place Lockyer - rather than one of their own players - on the 前線 cover of their matchday programme in a touching gesture to the defender.?

Heaping 賞賛する on the Cherries hours before kick-off, Luton 地位，任命するd on X: 'A touch of class'. They …を伴ってd the words with an orange and red love heart, 代表するing the colours of Bournemouth and Luton.?

Lockyer, 29, had an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) fitted after the terrifying 出来事/事件?which is there to shock his heart 支援する into 活動／戦闘 should it ever stop again.

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Tom Lockyer stands with the Bournemouth 医療の staff on his return to the Vitality Stadium

The defender was on the 前線 of Bournemouth's matchday programme in a touching gesture

The 29-year-old Hatters captain 削減（する）s a relaxed 人物／姿／数字 at the Vitality Stadium ahead of kick-off

Lockyer's heart stopped for two minutes and 40 seconds before paramedics 再開するd it during the fixture 支援する in December, which was called off 中途の through the second half

His cardiac 逮捕（する） at Bournemouth was Lockyer's second heart 問題／発行する in a 事柄 of months after he 苦しむd an atrial fibrillation (AF) in the 選手権 play-off final at Wembley last May.?

Lockyer 再会させるd with the Vitality Stadium medics who saved his life on Wednesday night, as his 味方する 用意が出来ている to take on Bournemouth after four losses in their last five league games.

Luton boss 略奪する Edwards, who 述べるd Bournemouth's 医療の staff as 'true heroes' during his 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 on Tuesday, 認める it will be an 'emotional' return for his players.

'It will be emotional going 支援する and reliving that experience but we know we have to do it,' he said.?

'They (the medics) are the true heroes. It is only football and there are more important things, but what those guys did in the most pressurised moment was incredible and they deserve all the attention and affection that they are going to get.

'It was a really difficult experience that we all went through. The main thing now is that Locks is okay and the silver lining is that some good will have come from it with more 認識／意識性 on CPR and the importance of knowing what to do in those 緊急 状況／情勢s.'

Ahead of the 繰り延べるd 首相 League match, 支持者s 信用s held events to raise 認識／意識性 around cardiac health. The Cherries 信用 and Talking Cherries have raised more than £2,000 for Luton's 支持者 coaches to …に出席する the game.

When discussing the 出来事/事件 in December, Lockyer said he was 'technically dead' for two minutes and 40 seconds and thanked the medics for 'resurrecting' him on the pitch

He chatted to the 医療の staff on the touchline moments before kick-off on the south coast

略奪する Edwards 述べるd the Bournemouth 医療の staff as 'true heroes' ahead of kick-off

Lockyer, 29, spoke about the terrifying moment he thought he was dying on ITV last month

Both 支持者s 信用s are 始める，決める to make a 贈呈 and 寄付 to the British Heart 創立／基礎 at half-time at the Vitality Stadium, and a one-minute 賞賛 has been organised for the 59th minute of the match - the time at which the 初期の fixture was abandoned.?

He showed off the scar where his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator was fitted

Lockyer, who gave birth to his first daughter last week, opened up on the terrifying moment at the Vitality Stadium last month.

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, Lockyer said: '支援する in May at the Play-off final it was something different. 支援する then, it was AF, which is the 最高の，を越す part of the heart and is not life-脅すing.

'支援する then at Wembley, because it was the first time, nobody really knew what was going on. It was "oh is it his ankle, is it his 膝, the heat?" All these things.?

'This time everyone knew this is serious and the 経営者／支配人 略奪する Edwards, he （機の）カム on within five seconds and that is unheard of. Everyone 肉親，親類d of knew this was serious this time.

'There was no 疑問 this time and I 肉親，親類d of knew 同様に which is why when I started coming 一連の会議、交渉／完成する and I couldn't move or speak, the staff there on 場所／位置 were more in 'go-方式'. They were 焦点（を合わせる）d and it was very serious.

'That's when I was like, "wow, I could be dying". 明白に when you're lying there and you can't speak and can't move, it's not a nice feeling to have.

He's 公約するd to think carefully about his health and family before 試みる／企てるing a return to football

There will be a one-minute 賞賛 for Lockyer in the 59th minute of the 繰り延べるd 衝突／不一致

Away 支持者s proudly held high a 旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する of Lockyer as the two teams 用意が出来ている to kick off

'But when I could move and speak, I felt 罰金, which is the mad thing. I wasn't sore, I wasn't in any sort of 苦痛. My heart got 支援する into rhythm thanks to the incredible 医療の staff.

'I'm so lucky it happened where it did because if it was to happen outside of hospital or a football pitch, the 生き残り 率 is only one in 10.'

Luton travel to the Vitality Stadium knowing that a 勝利，勝つ will climb them out of the relegation zone on goal difference, as the Hatters 現在／一般に sit three points behind Nottingham Forest in 18th place.?