United blow as Ferguson confirms O’Shea to miss rest of the season

ALEX FERGUSON has revealed that John O’Shea is set to miss the rest of the season.

The Waterford man hasn’t played since being forced to come off just past the hour mark in Ireland’s World Cup play-off game against France in Paris in November and, according to the Manchester United manager, complications arising out of that injury are having serious repercussions for the Ireland international.

“He’s got a terrible injury at the moment,” said Ferguson, in Dublin last night. “It’s one of those sorts of injuries that are unusual. It’s like a dead leg except a dead leg is usually only three or four days. The problem is that the blood clot became all knotted and when it gets knotted you get calcification, so therefore it’s a long process to clear that up and he’ll probably be out for the rest of the season now.