Waterford captain to miss Cup tie

WATERFORD UNITED captain John Frost will spend tonight’s FAI Carlsberg Cup second round tie against Everton in a hospital bed rather than at Turner’s Cross as doctors strive to locate a leak in his lung.

The defender picked up the unusual injury during the Blues' 2-1 Eircom League victory over Cork City at the RSC on Friday night but did not realise he had come to any harm until later that night.

Waterford manager Jimmy McGeough said: "He was sitting at home after the game and felt his neck and throat become swollen. He could stick his finger deep into his neck through the skin and so he went straight to hospital and he's been there ever since.