'Fellow Liverpool fans saved my life with CPR'

A lifelong Liverpool fan has said the fellow supporters who "saved him" when he had a cardiac arrest while driving home from a game encapsulated everything that is good about their club.

Tim Easton crashed into a wall after collapsing at the wheel following Liverpool's match against Ipswich at Anfield on 25 January.

Quick-thinking brothers Paul and Tony Casey leapt into action and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on Tim, who spent a week in a coma before making a recovery.

Meeting the "heroes" who saved his life, 68-year-old Tim praised their swift actions as well as others who stopped to help. He said their kindness "underpinned everything this club is all about".

Tim, who has been going to Liverpool matches since 1962, told BBC North West Tonight he always sings his heart out to the Reds anthem You'll Never Walk Alone before every game.

"It just really brought home that I did not walk alone, and it underpinned everything this club is about," he said of the Caseys.

While recuperating in hospital, Tim said he was overwhelmed by video messages of support from Kop heroes Robbie Fowler and Phil Thompson.

Tim said doctors had told him the Casey brothers had undoubtedly saved his life before paramedics arrived at the scene.

In an emotional reunion outside Anfield, Tim told Paul and Tony: "I will continue to cry my eyes out singing [You'll Never Walk Alone] for years to come, thanks to you guys."

"Everybody is in a rush to get somewhere," said Paul. "We stopped for five or 10 minutes and helped him, and he is here today.

"Had we not have stopped it would have been a totally different story."

Tony added: "Scousers help everyone.

"We're there to help everyone when we can, and Tim's here to prove it."

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