{"id":516868,"date":"2026-04-07T02:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516868\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:13:09","slug":"conor-coady-on-loan-charlton-athletic-defender-leaves-hospital-after-head-injury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516868\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Coady: On-loan Charlton Athletic defender leaves hospital after head injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On-loan Charlton Athletic defender Conor Coady has left hospital after being knocked out during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cy41ejj4de7t\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-1 draw at Watford<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former England international Coady, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cm2ypmjplj0o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined the Addicks<\/a> from fellow Championship side Wrexham for the rest of the season in January, received lengthy treatment after being hit by a shot during second-half added time at Vicarage Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old, making the 500th appearance of his club career, was carried off on a stretcher but, in a statement, Charlton said Coady was given the all-clear after scans, and thanked Watford&#8217;s medical staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coady, a Euro 2020 finalist with the Three Lions, posted a photo on Instagram of himself smiling shortly afterwards, telling fans he was &#8220;on my way home&#8221; and their messages of support &#8220;mean a lot&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On-loan Charlton Athletic defender Conor Coady has left hospital after being knocked out during the 1-1 draw at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-516868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}