Darren Fletcher Is Back In Action

Dar­ren Fletcher

Manchester United mid­fielder Dar­ren Fletcher made his first ap­pear­ance for his nat­ive Scot­land in al­most twelve months in the 2014 World Cup European Qual­i­fy­ing match against Wales at Cardiff City Sta­dium on Sat­urday. James Mor­rison put Scot­land ahead in the first half but two late goals from Gareth Bale gave Wales a 2–1 win.

Dar­ren Fletcher was forced to take an ex­ten­ded break from the game of foot­ball after he was dia­gnosed with a ser­i­ous bowel con­di­tion back in Decem­ber last year. The Scot­land in­ter­na­tional made his Manchester United comeback, how­ever, when he came on as a second period sub­sti­tute in a 2–1 de­feat against Ab­er­deen at Pit­todrie in Neil Simpson’s testi­mo­nial in Au­gust this year. After be­ing side­lined for nearly a year, the dy­namic mid­field play­maker entered the field as a re­place­ment for sum­mer sign­ing Nick Pow­ell in the 60th minute of the friendly en­counter. Dar­ren Fletcher: “I want to play everything down about com­ing back and be­ing an in­spir­a­tion to people. For the time be­ing I am back and that is all I can ask for. I still have to fight it every day and that is not go­ing to change. It never goes away and that is the thing I have to live with now. I have to watch my diet and take cer­tain med­ic­a­tion or it could come back again. It is a battle every day. I am never go­ing to be 100 per cent and that is some­thing I must live with for the rest of my life.”

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