Neviile: New Injury Blow
Mail: Manchester United skipper Gary Neville will be out of action for another two weeks.
Neville missed the final two months of last season after undergoing ankle surgery but was expected to be fit for the new campaign.
Instead, the long-serving England full-back has been a frustrated spectator as United have stumbled into the new campaign with successive draws.
Neville will miss out again this afternoon as United face City in the first Manchester derby of the new campaign, with Sir Alex Ferguson revealing the 32-year-old is now recovering from a calf strain.
Ferguson feels it will be at least a fortnight before Neville is fit again, which rules him out of the forthcoming Barclays Premier League fixtures against Tottenham and Sunderland and, in all probability, England’s Euro 2008 double-header against Israel and Russia in September.
The Scot explained: “It will be another couple of weeks.
“We are frustrated with the situation because the operation was fine.
“The surgeons did find a few little bits in there which they had to repair as well, which meant a longer recovery period but then Gary suffered a little setback with a calf injury.
“That sometimes happens when you are trying to compensate after an operation. So the ankle is okay, now the calf is the problem.”
