We can’t play it again
Posted Monday, March 19, 2012 by The Sun
BOLTON will hold talks with the FA in the next 48 hours before deciding whether to quit this season's FA Cup.
The club could feel it is too much to ask players to return to White Hart Lane so soon after witnessing Fabrice Muamba's harrowing fight for life.
Saturday's quarter-final with Tottenham was abandoned after the midfielder's collapse and a rematch would usually be played next Tuesday or Wednesday.
The entire club and especially the playing staff have been badly affected after Muamba suffered a cardiac arrest.
Some players have already talked privately about not wanting to go back so quickly to the north London ground.
But senior figures at the Reebok see it as an opportunity to win the tie for Muamba — and will gauge feelings before making a decision.
The match was called off after medical teams worked to resuscitate the player on the pitch.
He was then taken to London Chest Hospital.
Bolton's game at Aston Villa tomorrow has been postponed.
Boss Owen Coyle said: "The players wouldn't be in any fit state to play. Football pales into insignificance at this time."
Muamba remained in critical condition in hospital last night.
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