Defender has been in touch with his former Spurs teammate and says pressure is off Wales against Denmark in last 16
Before Wales’ training session on a scorching hot morning at the Giulio Onesti complex in Rome, Ben Davies pulls up a pew guarded by the shade and talks through the minutes that felt like hours – when he learned of his close friend and former
Tottenham teammate Christian Eriksen’s cardiac arrest.
“It was pretty horrific,” he says. “He is a good friend and I just didn’t know what was happening. I was on the phone to quite a lot of our mutual
Friends – it was a bit of a worry and a panicked stage at the time. Thank God everything seems to be OK and that is he is healthy and happy.”