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Originally Posted by lancsdave

Was he out injured ? I thought he'd been ill rather than injured and laid up for a few days according to his twitter.

You are probably correct, Dave. Being a fossil, I'm afraid I don't do twitter. I was going on the fact that he seemed to limp after the first tackle, and he walked off as though he was injured. Whatever it was, he seemed to my untrained, unmedical, unbadged mind to be unfit to start the game.