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BBC commentator thanks Cardiff City legend for saving him after heart attack

Blake, who played 131 times for City as well as winning 29 Wales caps, credited his actions to his mum’s nurse training.

The 54-year-old said: “She always used to say to me ‘if someone loses colour like that call an ambulance’.”

It had been business as usual for Phillips alongside him in the commentary box, as Cardiff lost “having played really well”, he told BBC Radio Wales.

Thierry Gale had scored a 90th-minute header at the Toughsheet Community Stadium in the Championship match, and after completing the post-match interviews, Phillips said he started “having severe chest pains” as he got back to the press box.

He added: “I said to Nath ‘I’ll be fine now’, but he told me I’d lost all my colour.”

Phillips said he was still laughing and joking around when he was taken to see the Bolton club doctor, adding: “He casually said to me ‘Rob, I can’t be sure, but I think you’re having a heart attack’.”

Within an hour he was on an operating table with a pipe up his arm, as doctors tried to unblock his artery.


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