Sturridge is just unfortunate

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The England international will not play again until 2015 after a new thigh strain this week ruled him out for six weeks. It is the ninth separate but similar injury the 25-year-old has had in his career.

He recently suggested his problems could be hereditary as his father, a trainee at Birmingham, and two uncles Dean and Simon — both professional footballers — also suffered the same problems.