Former Scotland striker Alan Brazil says he is “very, very lucky to be here” after undergoing a liver transplant recently.<\/p>\n
The 66-year-old, who now works as a broadcaster, revealed that his heart stopped beating during the procedure.<\/p>\n
“I’d had ongoing trials and seen so many specialists and they decided I needed a transplant,” Brazil told Talksport.<\/p>\n
“I finished [work] at quarter to 10 and at 10 I had to phone Addenbrooke’s Hospital. They said ‘get in right now’.<\/p>\n
“At two thirty that afternoon I was on the slab and they opened me up. I was under for something like eight hours.<\/p>\n
“They transplanted my liver. My heart did stop for a bit and it came back on its own.<\/p>\n
“I’ll be frank, I’m very, very lucky to be here.”<\/p>\n
Brazil had spells with Ipswich Town, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur among others during his playing career and is hopeful he can return to broadcasting in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
“I copped it, but thank God, luckily, the guys at Addenbrooke’s Hospital have saved my life,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I am on the mend. Still not there, but I am getting there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Scotland striker Alan Brazil says he is “very, very lucky to be here” after undergoing a liver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-482642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}