former England manager Glenn Hoddle and Simon Daniels who saved his life with CPR.
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00:00This is the frightening thing. This is why this campaign is so, so important.
00:04With the cardiac arrest, there was no science.
00:07Talking to everyone today, that's the problem with this.
00:11It doesn't creep up on you and sort of tap you on the shoulder.
00:15It just happens. And that's what happened to me.
00:18I just collapsed in the BT studios and didn't feel ill or anything like that.
00:23I was working. It was on my birthday of all days.
00:26And if it wasn't for Simon here doing the CPR, I wouldn't be sitting here today.
00:32It's as simple as that. So I can't remember much of the day.
00:36Next thing I, let's say I collapsed, and I woke up in the hospital.
00:41You had a doctor and a nurse looking over me, bewildered as to where I was and why I was there.
00:47We'd just come off the air, so we were on the air till 12.30.
00:52I came out of the sound control room, and Glenn was kicking a football backwards and forwards in the studio with Robbie.
00:57And he just went to kick the football and just fell straight back and went into cardiac arrest.
01:01So my instinct was just to run over, and I could quickly tell that he was in cardiac arrest.
01:08And I started doing CPR and did so for about eight and a half minutes until the ambulance turned up.
01:14Thankfully, this man didn't benefit. That was the key.
01:17I mean, for me, I was just focused on doing the CPR and just going through in my head the checks I needed to do.
01:25And I was shouting to people to get the defibrillator, phone an ambulance.
01:28I think London Ambulance Service said that there's about a dozen calls went into them from various people on the crew.
01:33And the first paramedics were there within seven and a half minutes.
01:37And I carried on doing CPR for about another minute so that they could get all their equipment set up.
01:43And then they took over and obviously took Glenn off to hospital.
01:47So it's the CPR that gives the hospital a chance to do something.
01:51And then, obviously, once the hospital have got you stable, then Glenn could obviously have surgery, which he went to Baths to have done.
01:57But it's that chain of survival.
01:59And this campaign to get more people CPR trained is really, really important.
02:04My nickname for him now is my Earth Angel.
02:09So the only reason why I'm sitting here is because he did what he did with the CPR.
02:14And so quickly, you know, I was a very lucky, lucky person because there's a lot of things that I might have not been there.
02:23I wasn't due to do the show. It got changed.
02:26And then actually on my birthday, you know, to Simon there, he could have gone for a phone call.
02:32I could have gone to the toilet or a phone call, been on my own.
02:35So I was a very, very lucky person.
02:37But more importantly, he knew exactly what he was doing.
02:41And although he broke seven ribs, the nurse did tell me in the hospital weeks afterwards,
02:49that's the sign of a really good CPR, the amount of ribs that you break, which made me laugh at the time.
02:57Please, please, please get the training.
03:00It's 15 minutes of your life.
03:03And as Simon has alluded to today, it's relatively simple.
03:08It's probably more importantly to keep your emotions correct, especially if it's a family member.
03:16They're the difficult things.
03:18But no, and this campaign will save not only one person's life.
03:24We've all said today, if the campaign's worth it, it's going to save one person's life.
03:29It's going to be more than that over the many years that it's come through.
03:33So quite simply, to track it all back down, this man gave me a gift on my birthday.
03:41And that was my life.
03:43Now, people out there, through the training, there's no better thing in life, surely,
03:47than to give someone a gift of their life.
03:50And I think that's quite a point.