The Iceman Cometh...(as soon as he sorts his dodgy foot)

Scans have apparently confirmed that Wes Brown did indeed suffer a broken metatarsal in his left foot following a fairly innocuous looking challenge with Matt Jarvis in our game against Wolves at the weekend.

Brown played against Egypt for England last week and seemed to have forced his way into Fabio Capello’s plans for South Africa.

The curse of the broken metatarsal has struck again though and what is it about England footballers and their dodgy feet at this time of year? There doesn’t seem to be a major tournament goes by without at least one of them suffering the same injury on the eve of the tournament!

The injury itself should take 6-8 weeks to fully heal and then a couple of weeks getting back to fitness will take us to around mid-May.

This obviously means that it looks unlikely that Brown will feature again for United this season but he should be more than ready for action if needed by the time England kick off on June 12th.

I do hope that Wes gets to go to the World Cup because he missed out in 2006 and this might well be his last chance. He’s a solid, dependable pro who has never let us down. His chances have been few over the last couple of seasons as Fergie has gone with the attacking style of Rafael but prior to that, I thought Wes Brown was our second best player of the season during the 2007/08 double winning campaign.

All the best, Wes!