{"id":431251,"date":"2026-05-04T05:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431251\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:13:08","slug":"alex-ferguson-taken-to-hospital-after-health-scare-at-old-trafford-ahead-of-liverpool-game-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/431251\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ferguson taken to hospital after health scare at Old Trafford ahead of Liverpool game \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/manchester-united\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/manchester-united\">Manchester United <\/a>manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/alex-ferguson\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/alex-ferguson\">Alex Ferguson<\/a> \u200chas been taken to hospital after feeling \u200bunwell ahead of Sunday\u2019s Premier League match between United and Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Sky \u200cSports \u200breported that the 84-year-old was conscious and had precautionary checks \u2060before \u200bbeing taken away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ferguson, \u200bwho managed United from 1986 until \u200chis retirement in \u200b2013, won 13 Premier League titles \u2060and two \u2060Champions \u200bLeague trophies during a glittering 26-year spell at the club. He hoisted a total of 38 trophies with United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">A United spokesperson said the club was \u200cunable to \u2060comment on Ferguson\u2019s status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ferguson is a regular at United\u2019s home \u200cgames and has a row of \u200bseats in the Old \u200bTrafford directors\u2019 box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson \u200chas been taken to hospital after feeling \u200bunwell ahead of Sunday\u2019s Premier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[122420,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-431251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alex-ferguson","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}