United in need of some urgent Foster care

TWO Manchester United players, at different ends of their respective careers, will want to swiftly forget events at Old Trafford where their team required a deflected injury-time equaliser to scratch out a point against Sunderland.

But, in contrast to the horrendously sub-par showing of the veteran midfielder Paul Scholes, Ben Foster’s continuing travails could have far-reaching implications for club and country.

The opening weeks of this season were to have been a rite de passage for Foster, 26, as soon as first-choice Edwin van der Sar was sidelined with a broken finger.