The grandfather of a Highland League player is in intensive care after falling ill during a game.
John Fraser suffered a suspected heart attack while watching grandson Scott Fraser’s side Deveronvale take on Cove Rangers on Tuesday.
The defender looked up into the stands at Princess Royal Park in Banff after his grandfather collapsed, and was substituted not long after.
Deveronvale’s club medic Albert Cran rushed to help, and is understood to have used a defibrillator to try and keep him alive.
Paramedics arrived just before half time, and Mr Fraser sen was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, where he remains.
Last night club chairman Jim Mair said everyone at the club had their “fingers crossed” for the Fraser family.
“Albert Cran was engaged in trying to keep John alive until he went to hospital,” he said.
“I think it was an extremely quick and good effort given the circumstances.”
One witness at the game described the stand being cleared after emergency crews left the ground.
“It was in the other section from where I was standing – I saw someone being treated on the ground,” he said.
“He was taken away by the paramedics and then they cleared the stand and moved the people next to him across to our section.”
The incident is the second time this year that a football fan’s life has been saved with the use of a defibrillator machine.
Peterhead fan Val Pearson had gone to cheer on his side against Dunfermline Athletic earlier this year when he collpased outside Balmoon Stadium.
Physiotherapist Kenny Murray burst into action to save his life by grabbing the club’s defibrillator and resuscitating the 67-year-old.
The St Andrew’s First Aid charity said that, for every minute that passes after a cardiac arrest, the chance of survival is decreased by around 10%.
A spokesman for the charity added: “Certainly, we’re seeing a number of instances of people whose life has been saved by having access to a defibrillator.”