Upton Park Injury Still Haunts Given!

Last updated : 23 November 2007 By Footy Mad - Editor

Given has been dogged by groin problems since returning from the horrific bowel injury he suffered in a collision with West Ham United's Marlon Harewood at Upton Park early last season.

Given "I don't really know if that is the whole problem, but what I do know is that before then I never had any groin problems at all.

"However, I think I've got to the bottom of the problem.

"I feel that I've been doing too much in training and over-working myself at the end of the week.

"What I'm looking to do now is get in all the hard work early on in the week and ease off a bit by the end of it.

"Certainly, when I was injured at Reading I put it down to being over-worked.

"Steve's (Harper) done very well.

"We lost it against Portsmouth because of four or five minutes of madness."I went with the lads to Sunderland and I'd have loved to have been out there because that's the kind of atmosphere I thrive on."