The Stoke City goalkeeper Jack Butland will not be available for Sam Allardyce’s first England squad after sustaining an ankle problem in training.
Butland was absent during Stoke’s 1-1 draw at Middlesbrough on Saturday withMark Hughes, the manager, admitting the injury “knocked us sideways” during training the previous day.
Scans have shown that Butland will only be out for weeks rather than months, with scar tissue causing him pain on the same ankle that he fractured during England’s friendly victory over Germany before Euro 2016. However, Hughes insists that he will not be available for England when Allardyce’s team play Slovakia in a World Cup qualifier on 4 September.
The Stoke City goalkeeper Jack Butland will not be available for Sam Allardyce’s first England squad after sustaining an ankle problem in training.
Butland was absent during Stoke’s 1-1 draw at Middlesbrough on Saturday withMark Hughes, the manager, admitting the injury “knocked us sideways” during training the previous day.
Scans have shown that Butland will only be out for weeks rather than months, with scar tissue causing him pain on the same ankle that he fractured during England’s friendly victory over Germany before Euro 2016. However, Hughes insists that he will not be available for England when Allardyce’s team play Slovakia in a World Cup qualifier on 4 September.
[Source: The Guardian]
