Look where I am... Christian CAN play again

FORMER Manchester United defender Daley Blind suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch – and still has his sights set on helping Holland win the Euros.

- SIMON MULLOCK

And now the 31-year-old Ajax star has sent a message to stricken Christian Eriksen to assure the Danish midfielder that his brush with death in Copenhagen last week does not have to end his career.

Eriksen is preparing to be fitted with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator after collapsing on the pitch during his nation’s defeat to Finland.

It is the same procedure undertaken by Blind after he suffered a black-out during a Champions League game against Valencia in December 2019.

Blind said: “The images from Copenhagen – with Christian lying on the grass – had such a big impact on me.

“Those images were so recognizable to me. It was so real again, this is why it was so emotional for me.

“I had to climb over a big, mental hurdle before I could manage to play the following day for Holland in our first group game.