Fan who saved man's life gets Wembley honour
Reading fan Pippa Sharman, who lives in Oxfordshire, performed CPR on a Luton fan in 2022.
A football fan who saved a man's life after a match involving their respective clubs will be honoured by having a Wembley stand named after her. Pippa Sharman was leaving Reading's away match at Luton Town in 2022 when she saw David Norman crash his car as he suffered a cardiac arrest. A stand at Wembley will be temporarily named in her honour during the English Football League (EFL) play-off finals on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, which are set to be attended by a total of about 200,000 fans.
Sharman, a police officer who lives in Cholsey, Oxfordshire, said her training kicked in at the time and it was "wonderful" to know that her intervention had saved Norman's life. Recalling the events of 2022, she said: "I had left the [Luton] stadium after the most boring game you can imagine and I was walking back to the car when the car that Dave was in shot across the road and T-boned another car. "As I got [to the car], it was very clear that Dave was not breathing so, with the help of another person, pulled him from the car and gave him CPR and thankfully he survived.
"I just knew that he needed my help and without it he would have died. It's that simple," she said. They have since met and she said she was pleased to have been able to help him.
"He's got three children, he's married and he's now got to see all these milestones in their lives because he's still here to do so. It's really wonderful. "It's just so important people know CPR if they're ever in that situation to do the same thing," she added.