Newcastle’s third-choice keeper,Rob Elliot, is set to play for weeks with the top two ruled out at a club with 13 injured players – the most in the Premier LeagueThe share sheer luck plays in the fortunes of players and managers is often wildly underestimated but one thing is certain: Steve McClaren is not enjoying much of the stuff at the moment.
Newcastle United may be bottom of the Premier League table but, and with 13 senior professionals on the treatment table,they top the division’s injury charts. Possibly the cruellest blow for their manager was the news that an awkward fall on an icy plastic pitch in Kazakhstan has left Tim Krul, his goalkeeper, and nursing a ruptured cruciate ligament.
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Source: theguardian.com