Tuesday 17 January 2017 10:15, UK
Former Leicester City midfielder Alan Birchenall has been released from hospital after undergoing heart surgery.
Birchenall is now recovering at home after he had a heart attack at an awards ceremony on Thursday evening.
He was transferred to Glenfield Hospital after collapsing while representing the club at the Leicester Mercury Sports Awards at Leicester Tigers’ Welford Road stadium.
The 71-year-old is a Leicester club ambassador and stadium announcer, who has helped raise millions of pounds for charity, for which he was awarded an MBE in 2003.
He was saved by one of the mobile defibrillators in Leicester that his fundraising helped pay for.
Birchenall made 163 appearances for the Foxes between 1971 and 1977.
