{"id":648041,"date":"2025-12-22T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/648041\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:52:15","slug":"liam-belcher-wales-hooker-back-for-cardiff-after-scary-nerve-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/648041\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Belcher: Wales hooker back for Cardiff after &#8216;scary&#8217; nerve issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales hooker Liam Belcher is glad to be back to full power with Cardiff after a &#8220;scary&#8221; injury that resulted in him losing feeling in his arm.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old front rower featured in the autumn Tests against Argentina and Japan until he was sidelined by a nerve issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hooker returned to captain Cardiff against Scarlets in the United Rugby Championship on Friday, providing some cheer in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cd0kp4x8kl9o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a frustrating 21-17 loss.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a concerning one, I&#8217;d never had it before,&#8221; said Belcher. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a bit scary, losing power in your arm &#8211; then it hit the tricep and went on to the forearm and grip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The only positive I can take against Scarlets was that I got through OK and there weren&#8217;t any repercussions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales hooker Liam Belcher is glad to be back to full power with Cardiff after a &#8220;scary&#8221; injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-648041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115762609830797895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}