OUR thoughts are with the family of Leicester City's Clive Clarke, who is undergoing treatment in the cardiac care unit in a Nottingham hospital.

The 27-year-old former Hammers full-back, who played under Alan Pardew, collapsed during the half-time interval of City's Carling Cup match at Nottingham Forest last night (Aug 28).

After a 25-minute delay it was announced that the game had been abandoned. The Leicester players said they were too upset to continue a match that Forest were leading 1-0.

Clarke, who joined the Foxes on loan from Sunderland earlier this month, received treatment from paramedics at the City Ground but regained consciousness and was taken to hospital in Nottingham.

Clarke's agent Gary Mellor told BBC Radio Stoke on Wednesday (Aug 29): "Clive is sitting up and talking and he is going to have more tests at the hospital on Wednesday afternoon.

"They won't give us any idea as to when he will be released. They don't want to tell us any more until they know exactly what happened.

"It appears Clive's heart stopped twice and mouth-to-mouth didn't work so the paramedics had to use a defibrillator.

"His family are very upset, especially after what happened with the Sevilla player Antonio Puerta dying recently. We just hope he's going to be OK."