Brentford midfielder Christian Eriksen says he had no doubts he would return to football.

The Dane was released by Inter Milan after suffering a cardiac arrest whilst playing for Denmark at Euro 2020 last year.

Eriksen, 29, who has signed a short-term contract with Brentford, revealed it took him two days to realise he would be able to play football again.

"On the way to the hospital I told Sabrina I may as well leave my boots here," Eriksen told Brentford's club website.

"It changed two days later. It was in the moment. I recognised what happened to me later on that night and the next few days. Then all the tests started and all the knowledge started to come in and all the questions were being asked 'Can I do this? Can I do that?' and listen to the doctors.

"Then after that it slowly took off in a way that if I can do tests with a doctor along the way then I can slowly get back to playing football. There were a lot of tests to see how the heart reacted to physical training again and luckily nothing came out of that and everything was good.

"Then, every month I could push it and then I could play. But the thing was hearing from the doctors that even with an ICD there are no limits, it just depends on the diagnosis and how you feel about it. I've had to be patient but I trusted my trainer and trusted my doctor and followed the plan they made and that made me comfortable and relaxed about it, about getting back to normal. But normal for me had to change."