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Former Liverpool boss Graeme Souness is said to be “doing well” after being admitted to hospital on Friday .

His wife Karen says she is optimistic the ex-Reds midfielder will make a swift recovery after suffering a suspected heart attack.

She said the 62-year-old had “suddenly” collapsed and was quickly rushed to hospital where he underwent a minor heart operation, reports the Daily Record.

The Sky Sports pundit is expect to leave the Royal Bournemouth General Hospital tomorrow and return to the couple’s £2.5million family home in Poole, Dorset.

Former Bond girl, Karen, 56, said: “It happened very suddenly and I called the ambulance.

“Graeme was taken into hospital on Friday and he’s had a minor cardiac procedure which has all gone well and they’re hoping to discharge him within the next 48 hours.

“It wasn’t planned. It’s just normal practice – they keep you in for a couple of days, it’s all very normal and we’re hoping to have him soon.”

Karen, who married Graeme in 1994, added that the football legend shouldn’t require any further treatment.

She said: “He’s fine – he’s telling everyone he feels fine and wants to go home.

“We hope he’ll be back to to full health very soon.”

A spokeswoman for the Royal Bournemouth General Hospital said: “The patient was admitted for a routine cardiac procedure and he is doing well.”

In 1992 Souness, who’s now a respected TV pundit, underwent a triple heart bypass aged just 38 while manager at Liverpool.

The former Scotland midfielder suffered an infection following the bypass, which led to further surgery.

He later said it took him a year to recover both physically and psychologically and added: “There were many mornings I would wake up in tears. I would cry and I don’t mind admitting that.

“I couldn’t get my head around what was happening to me. It was the feeling that I was no longer the person I had been – and that I would never again be the person I had been.”

He flew to the US eight years later for specialist life-saving surgery to repair a blocked artery.