{"id":60890,"date":"2021-04-21T06:47:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T06:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=60890"},"modified":"2021-04-21T07:57:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T07:57:06","slug":"souths-icon-george-piggins-rushed-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=60890","title":{"rendered":"Souths icon George Piggins rushed to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/south-sydney-rabbitohs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"South Sydney \">South Sydney<\/a> legend George Piggins has been rushed to hospital and remains in intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>Piggins was taken to Sydney&#x27;s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown around 3.30am early Wednesday morning and remains in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The 75-year-old is believed to be suffering from a severe infection, according to Fox Sports.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic South Sydney hooker led the charge for the Rabbitohs to be reinstated into the NRL after the club were kicked out of the competition in 2000.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"20d75a62-7c06-4d65-9c45-085ebcf24a04\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/20d75a62-7c06-4d65-9c45-085ebcf24a04\" alt=\"South Sydney legend George Piggins. (Getty)\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2001, he famously led an incredible 100,000 person march through the streets of Sydney to the Sydney Town Hall as part of the fight to save the club.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Piggins played for the Bunnies from 1967 to 1978. He also coached South Sydney from 1986 to 1990, leading the club to the minor premiership in 1989.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>South Sydney legend George Piggins has been rushed to hospital and remains in intensive care. Piggins was taken to Sydney&#x27;s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=60890\" title=\"Souths icon George Piggins rushed to hospital\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60892,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60890\/revisions\/60892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}