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Between 1997 and 2016, more than 11,000 players filled in a health questionnaire, and were given a physical examination, 12-lead ECG and echocardiography. Of these players, 42 (0.38%) had cardiac diseases that could cause sudden cardiac death. Hardly any had symptoms of any sort.

Most – 30 out of the 42 – had surgery or other treatment for their heart defect and were able to go back to playing football, but the other 12 stopped playing. “Some people were disqualified from the sport, so their dreams were taken away from them. You could argue that those people may never have died if they carried on. That could be true but we don’t know that,” said Sharma.

"He and his team found a death rate of one in 14700 people"