{"id":647329,"date":"2026-05-03T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647329\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T17:28:08","slug":"sir-alex-ferguson-taken-to-hospital-before-manchester-united-v-liverpool-game-alex-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647329\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Alex Ferguson taken to hospital before Manchester United v Liverpool game | Alex Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sir Alex Ferguson was taken to hospital from Old Trafford after feeling unwell before Manchester United\u2019s hosting of Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The move was believed to be a precautionary, and the Guardian has been told the 84-year-old is out of harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The former United manager, who won 13 Premier League titles and the Champions League twice in his 27-year tenure at Old Trafford, is a regular at United\u2019s home games and has a row of seats in the Old Trafford directors\u2019 box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Ferguson was pictured at the stadium on Sunday before kick-off before being taken to hospital. The legendary manager had a brain haemorrhage in 2018, which was life-threatening and which he spoke of three years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">United did not comment when contacted by the Guardian on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Alex Ferguson was taken to hospital from Old Trafford after feeling unwell before Manchester United\u2019s hosting of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-647329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}