Fabrice Muamba’s family have asked for visitors to stop heading to the London Chest Hospital to allow the Bolton midfielder to concentrate on his recovery.

Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba is showing “small signs of improvement” but remains “critically ill”, according to the London Chest Hospital.

David Beckham will be reunited with wife Victoria today after the Spice Girl flew back to London on hearing of her father-in-law’s heart attack.

Footballer David Beckham arrived back in the UK today to be at the hospital bedside of his father, who has suffered a heart attack.