{"id":451007,"date":"2026-04-24T04:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/451007\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:40:16","slug":"the-past-six-weeks-have-been-hell-james-mcclean-admits-fight-to-save-career-due-to-chronic-hip-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/451007\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The past six weeks have been hell\u2019 \u2013 James McClean admits fight to save career due to chronic hip injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James McClean during a Derry City training session at Celtic Park in Derry earlier today. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bd613412-e457-4059-bc73-be3b3d2bad74.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">James McClean during a Derry City training session at Celtic Park in Derry earlier today. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">James McClean has revealed he will have an assessment in England tomorrow on a chronic hip injury with the Ireland centurion admitting his fears he may never play for Derry City again if the issue cannot be resolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Derry native, who turned 37 last Wednesday, was told by a specialist that his body currently has \u201cno business being on a football pitch\u201d and says the toll training and playing on astro has had on his hip over the last six weeks has been \u201chell\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James McClean during a Derry City training session at Celtic Park in Derry earlier today. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[28978,18,19,17,2723,132],"class_list":["post-451007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-derry-city","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sean-oconnor","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116457847401449678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}