A YOUNG Hampshire footballer is today recovering at home after he dramatically stopped breathing during a match.

Robbie Tambling collapsed while playing for Gosport Borough at AFC Totton's Testwood Park last night.

The 17-year-old - a relative of Chelsea legend Bobby Tambling - had been undergoing tests on his heart in recent weeks, but had been given the all clear to play.

Gosport chairman Mark Hook described how the promising striker's lips turned blue as he was receiving emergency treatment on the pitch towards the end of the game.

But the former Hayling College student regained consciousness and ambulance crews rushed him to hospital.

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Mark said: "Robbie was immediately attended to by the club's physio team Paul Reay and Gary Boud and paramedics were called.

"He was taken to hospital by ambulance and by that time he was sitting up again but for a while we had lost his pulse and his lips had turned blue."

Robbie's mum Sarah this morning told the Daily Echo that the former Hayling College student was sleeping at their Portsmouth home after being discharged from hospital in the small hours last night.

She added: "They don't know what's wrong with him at the moment - he keeps getting chest pains and passing out. It's not something he has always suffered from."

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