Observer gets details wrong in coverage of collapse of soccer player Fabrice Muamba:
Our coverage of the collapse of midfielder Fabrice Muamba in Bolton Wanderers’ match against Spurs said he was “granted asylum status in Britain in 1994 at the age of 11” (“Muamba fighting for his life”, Sport, last week, page 1) yet he was born in April 1988.
As made plain in “Muamba the refugee has made football his home” (Sport, page 2) he actually came to Britain in 1999 when his father was granted indefinite leave to remain as an employee of former Zaire president Mobutu Sese Seko, not Mobotu Sese Soko. And “Shocked fans leave in silence after Muamba’s collapse on pitch” (News, page 3), said he was taken to the London Chest Hospital in Hackney. We meant Bethnal Green.
