Footy legend Phil Gould has been taken to hospital and is battling some 'significant health concerns', according to reports.
Nine's Danny Weidler announced during Tuesday's Dally M awards that Gould, 67, had been in hospital since Monday and has 'a big couple of days ahead'.
He also revealed that he had spoken to the Canterbury Bulldogs general manager to wish him a speedy recovery.
'Nine league expert and Bulldogs boss Phil Gould has been in hospital since Monday and has some significant health concerns,' Weidler wrote on X.
He added Gould is 'facing a big couple of days.'
The Australian reports that the footy journalist and administrator is ‘awaiting test results relating to a heart condition’.
He was not present on Channel Nine’s 100% Footy show on Monday night.
However, the footy boss has been in good spirits and has stayed in contact with members of the Bulldogs hierarchy via email from his hospital bed.
Concerns were raised earlier this year for the former Canterbury and Penrith coach, after the footy icon published a photo on social media after undergoing eye surgery.
The 67-year-old wore a see-through eye-patch over his 'new eye', and took a shoort break from rugby league following the scheduled procedure.
He showed off his bandages on social media, adding a caption: 'And there it is … A new eye.'
Gould, who has over 75,000 followers on X, also revealed that he has already booked in with his doctor to get his other eye done at some stage in the future.
Despite being admitted to hospital over the weekend for a separate health matter, Gould has still been very active on social media over the past week, notably taking to X to congratulate Brisbane Broncos for their finals victory against Penrith on Sunday afternoon.
It's been a busy year for the footy coach, whose side were knocked out of this year's finals series by Penrith, despite being a hopeful to finally end their 21-year wait for a flag.
It comes as the former Penrith player hit out at the NRL for it's preliminary final scheduling.
He lashed out at the league on Nine's Wide World of Sports, appearing to claim that the Melbourne Storm had been given an unfair advantage heading into this weekend's NRL Grand Final against the Broncos.
Gould appeared to claim that hosting a preliminary final between the Storm and the Sharks on Friday night and the second final between the Broncos and the Panthers on Sunday made a lopsided build-up to Sunday's showpiece event, which will kick off at 7.30pm at the Accor Stadium.
In May Gould was embroiled in a heated exchange with rugby league journalist Michael Chammas on 100% Footy in relation to Canterbury chasing Wests Tigers star Lachlan Galvin
Typically, preliminary final matches are played on concurrent nights. That gives both victors a fairly equal time-frame to recover before the Grand Final.
However, Gould was left fuming by the scheduling decision.
'They are gonna get an extra two days of recovery leading into the grand final,' he said on Wide World of Sports' Six Tackles With Gus.
'That's huge at this time of year, absolutely huge. That's again one of the vagaries in our game that we just overlook and say that's OK, we will just have to put up with it. I really don't think it's fair.'
The games were understood to have been switched around in order to avoid a conflict with the AFL Grand Final on Saturday afternoon.
But Gould, was not fussed one bit about events taking place at the MCG.
'Bugger the AFL grand final. Play them both (the NRL prelims) on Sunday, I don't care. Play them both on Friday night, I don't care,' Gould fumed.
'I think a 48-hour advantage for the Storm or Sharks leading into the grand final is huge. That's not fair, that's not even.'
Earlier this year, Gould was also embroiled in a heated exchange with league reporter Michael Chammas on Nine's 100% Footy, regarding former Bulldogs star Lachlan Galvin's unceremonious exit from the footy club.
Despite being admitted to hospital over the weekend for a separate health matter, Gould has still been very active on social media over the past week, notably taking to X to congratulate Brisbane Broncos for their finals victory against Penrith on Sunday afternoon
During the debate, Gould had denied claims he'd misled the public about signing the playmaker before hitting out at Chammas.
'How did I mislead you on Lachlan Galvin?' Gould asked in tense scenes.
'I never said I wasn't interested. What I said was we're on a different course, he's not in our plans because he wasn't off contract until 2027.
'You're summising that because it's happened. You want that to be the truth.
'You want that to be the truth, that's the scenario you want to create. I didn't see it happening that way at all, not at all.
'You go back and review everything I've said about Lachlan Galvin and what transpired and everything I said was 100 per cent the truth at the time.'
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