{"id":2672,"date":"2014-06-11T15:42:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T08:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2014-06-11T15:42:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T08:42:26","slug":"darren-fletcher-may-miss-manchester-united-pre-season-due-to-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/darren-fletcher-may-miss-manchester-united-pre-season-due-to-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Fletcher may miss Manchester United pre-season due to surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher may need surgery on a toe he broke in the last game of last season and could miss the start of pre-season under new manager Louis van Gaal.<\/p>\n<p>The Scotland captain will see a specialist this week and could be out for at least a month if he needs an operation.<\/p>\n<p>Any absence would be another blow for the 30-year-old who only returned to first team action at the turn of the year after a lengthy lay-off due to a bowel problem.<\/p>\n<p>He is desperate to get a full close season under his belt after making a full recovery from ulcerative colitis which had threatened to end his career and troubled him for more than two years&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.skysports.com\/football\/news\/12040\/9344973\/darren-fletcher-facing-surgery-and-may-miss-manchester-united-pre-season\" title=\"Read more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Football News &#8211; Manchester United &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/football\/\" title=\"Football\">Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher may need surgery on a toe he broke in the last game of last season and could miss the start of pre-season under new manager Louis van Gaal. The Scotland captain will see a specialist this week and could be out for at least a month if he needs an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[881,883,882,1267,371,354,623,356,372,880,30,884,639,885,114,120,80,188,886],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-darren-fletcher","tag-darren-fletcher-broken-toe","tag-darren-fletcher-surgery","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-louis-van-gaal","tag-manager-louis-van-gaal","tag-manchester-united","tag-manchester-united-news","tag-midfielder-darren-fletcher","tag-news","tag-pre-season","tag-scotland","tag-scotland-captain","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-ulcerative-colitis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}