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Halsey behind Petrov in cancer fight

SoccerNews in English Premier League 31 Mar 2012

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English Premier League referee Mark Halsey has offered to share his experience of battling leukaemia with Aston Villa’s Stiliyan Petrov.

Bulgarian Petrov was diagnosed with acute leukaemia this week, a disease 50-year-old Halsey successfully overcame in 2009.

Halsey returned to refereeing in 2010, and has promised to support Petrov in any way he can.

“I’ve refereed Stiliyan a lot and he is a lovely guy,” Halsey told The Daily Mail.

“It needs Stiliyan to get his friends and family, and the whole of football, round him. People will rally round and that is a major help.

“He has got to go about his life as normally as possible. There will be bad days, but you get them in life anyway.

“I have offered Villa my support. You don’t know what it is like until you go through it. I have had chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

“My wife, Michelle, has leukaemia and is on drugs every day. She leads a normal life, too, although she also has her bad days.

“If Stiliyan wants to give me a call, I am here morning, noon and night.

“At first your whole world caves in. My instant reaction was, ‘Am I going to die?’ But you have got to battle.”

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