{"id":16508,"date":"2009-07-16T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16508"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"swans-rocked-by-pratley-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/07\/16\/swans-rocked-by-pratley-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"Swans Rocked By Pratley Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Fulham midfielder will undergo an operation on Monday to correct the long standing problem to his shoulder suffered in 4-1 win over Preston North End last January. Injuring his AC joint last time around the 24 year old was told that he faced a 10 week stint on the side-lines but returned just five weeks later. It is likely to&nbsp;see Pratley miss the first five weeks of the new Championship campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It came as a blow to the midfielder last time around as he was&nbsp;due to earn his first international cap with Jamaica. This time club doctors are taking no chances after Pratley felt pain in the area where he suffered&nbsp;a rupture of the AC joint. <\/p>\n<p>Pratley is also expected to undertake a two month rehabilitation program after the surgery on Monday. The injury leaves Swansea with just two fit centre midfielders for the trip to Leicester in Leon Britton and Joe Allen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>additonal reporting by Lisa Higgins <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Fulham midfielder will undergo an operation on Monday to correct the long standing problem to his shoulder suffered in 4-1 win over Preston North End last January. Injuring his AC joint last time around the 24 year old was told that he faced a 10 week stint on the side-lines but returned just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}