The 23-year-old is in a critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest during the first half of Saturday's abandoned FA Cup quarter-final at Tottenham Hotspur. In a joint statement released by Bolton and the hospital just after 11am on Sunday, it emerged that although paramedics tried to resuscitate Muamba at the ground and in the ambulance, they were unable to get his heart to start beating by itself until he reached the hospital in Bethnal Green, almost two hours after he collapsed at White Hart Lane.