Fratton Park crowd to get a CPR lesson ahead of Portsmouth game against Milton Keynes Dons FC

Before Portsmouth faces Milton Keynes Dons FC on Saturday, attendees will have a chance to attend the CPR training pop-up centre in the Fanzone, led by the University of Portsmouth’s paramedic science course.

The club is also promoting an online training app – RevivR - from the British Heart Foundation, with a QR code to the app in the match programme and videos displayed on the stadium’s big screens.

Ahead of the match, members of the Pompey squad and manager Danny Cowley were trained on RevivR by the university, learning the essential skills required if a team-mate or loved one required support.

The training teaches lifesaving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills and how to use a defibrillator in just 15 minutes.

Ahead of the match, members of the Pompey squad and manager Danny Cowley were trained on RevivR by university staff, learning the essential skills required if a team-mate or loved-one required support.

Rob Isherwood, senior teaching fellow and course lead for paramedic science at the University of Portsmouth, said: ‘We know that currently in the south coast of England, the cardiac arrest survival rate is one in 12.

‘We want to change that. We know the chances of us saving people is greatly increased if somebody has started the process of CPR before we get there, rather than waiting for us to arrive.’