'Excitement at City gave me a coronary!'.

Byline: By Louise Day South Wales Echo 

Cardiff City fan Ian Jenkins is still dreaming of watching his beloved Bluebirds in the Premiership - thanks to the paramedics who saved his life. The 57-year-old suffered a heart attack at the end of City's 1-0 win over Southampton. But he is now looking forward to watching the Bluebirds again, having met the man who kept him alive

'I go with my wife to lots of the midweek games and I remember celebrating and jumping up and down after Steve Thompson scored with about five minutes to go,' said Mr Jenkins, of Stream Street, Mountain Ash.

'I got a bit excited and then I got a chest pain and I just sat down there on the Bob Bank at the final whistle. I don't remember much after that.'

His wife Carole, however, remembers the events clearly.

She said: 'One minute he was jumping in the air, the next I couldn't believe what was happening. It was very, very frightening.

'But the paramedics were fantastic. They did a wonderful job.

'The stewards and St John's fetched them and the club doctor.

'They got him into the ambulance and it was off to hospital with the blue lights going with two of them working on him in the back.

'Without the paramedics, I really don't believe he would have survived.'

Paramedic Alan Harris, the duty ambulance officer in charge, said: 'Mr Jenkins was displaying all the classic signs of a heart attack, he was grey, sweating and in a lot of pain.

'We gave him morphine for the pain, aspirin and a GGN spray under the tongue and at the hospital he was taken to the cardiac unit.'

Paramedic Robin Petterson, who attended to Mr Jenkins along with ambulance technician Tony Rich, said: 'It was a good day. Cardiff City got a result and so did we.'

Mr Jenkins still had a battle on his hand, having two more cardiac arrests in the hospital, but was released six days later.

He is now at home, but has only managed to listen to one radio commentary of Cardiff City - the 1-0 defeat at Norwich.

Carole said: 'That was my fault. I prayed Cardiff wouldn't score.

'I can't imagine what it'll be like if they get to the Premiership. He'll have to be tied to his seat.'

Ian, a painter at Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil, has already received a get well card signed by the Cardiff City players and manager Dave Jones.

His son Phil is also a paramedic in Caerphilly, and another son, Jason, is a first responder in one of the community-based groups trained to use electric shock and oxygen equipment.

Ian is now on the mend at home, but dreaming of the days when the likes of Liverpool and Manchester United come to Cardiff. 'I'm feeling pretty good,' he said: 'It's early days yet but I'm sure I'll be back cheering the Bluebirds on again soon.'