The fan who required medical assistance during the Newcastle United and Tottenham match is awake and responsive in a nearby hospital.
Sunday’s Premier League game came to a halt in the 40th minute, with Spurs leading 2-1, after referee Andre Marriner was alerted to the incident by players and supporters.
Both sets of players walked to the sidelines as emergency crews attended the person in the East Stand, with Newcastle’s club doctor Paul Catterson seen carrying a defibrillator.
After consulting police, the referee took the players off the field with play having been suspended for around six minutes.
Some 12 minutes after the game had stopped, an announcement was made that the teams would be returning to complete the first half, for which seven minutes of stoppage time had earlier been signalled.
Newcastle had earlier confirmed that the person had been stabilised and was on the way to hospital as the players reemerged to warm up.
After the resumption in play, Tottenham increased their lead in first-half added time through Heung-Min Son.
The match finished in a 3-2 win for Spurs after they scored an own goal through Eric Dier in the 89th minute, with Newcastle, who saw Jonjo Shelvey sent off in the second half for two yellow cards, still winless after their opening eight league games.
Speaking to Sky Sports after the game, Tottenham’s Harry Kane said: “First and foremost we want to say best wishes to the guy in the stands. It wasn’t a good sight to see, and we hear he might be stable now, so we’re thankful to the medical team and the fans. Hopefully he is OK, and we wish him all the best from Spurs and the players.”
Tottenham left-back Sergio Reguilon, who helped get referee Marriner’s attention to the incident, added: “I saw the fan lying down, and one man [giving him CPR], I was very nervous, I went to the referee and said we cannot play, stop the match. The fans say: ‘Stop, stop!'”
Ginola recalls role CPR played in his recovery from cardiac arrest
Former Newcastle midfielder David Ginola had a quadruple heart bypass after suffering cardiac arrest during a charity match in France in 2016 and was a Sky Sports pundit at St James’ Park on Sunday.
Ginola was given CPR on the pitch at the time and spoke of its importance in enabling someone of having a better chance of a full recovery.
“This is what saved my life – those were the words of the surgeons that operated on me,” he said.
“The one who saved my life were the ones on the football pitch who knew how to perform CPR. They did it for 12 minutes and I was dead for 12 minutes. It is so important as otherwise the brain will be damaged.
“Sometimes [when doing CPR] people don’t want to hurt you too much but you need to go deep and break ribs. When you learn how to do it, you are going very strong on the body. This is the key. It’s vital.”