Aston Villa and Ireland keeper Shay Given faces a month on the sidelines through injury.
Given injured his hamstring in the first half of Aston Villa’s 1-0 defeat at the hands of Manchester United and he was replaced at half-time in that game.
“I’m not sure but I think Shay had a little tweak in his hamstring,” said Alex McLeish after the game. “Hopefully it’s a grade one (tear) and will heal really quickly.”
That has now been confirmed and it will be 2012 before the Donegal man is back in action.
Luckily for Giovanni Trapattoni the Irish team do not play so it will not affect his plans.