ELITE footballers are young, rich and often act as if they are above the law, but they are not invincible. A high-flying AFL premiership player learned that the hard way last spring when he nearly died in an American hospital.
The strange circumstances surrounding a super-fit professional athlete being revived after "flatlining" is a story most football insiders know — but none talk about it publicly.
"Mate, it's right, but they'd hang me off the grandstand if I went on the record," a respected former player and official told The Sunday Age. "It's such a small world, football."
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