‘Superfit’ footballer, 24, devastated by shock cancer diagnosis after doctors mistook it for a SPIDER phobia

A FORMER England footballer was told by doctors she had a phobia of arachnids after she fainted when seeing a spider.

But Amy Carr’s spider phobia had a much serious cause – she went on to be diagnosed with a brain tumour.

SWNSAmy Carr was told by doctors she had a phobia of spiders after she saw one in her room and fainted[/caption] GettyAmy said she’d never reacted to anything that way before[/caption] SWNSBut an MRI scan revealed the seizures Amy had been suffering...