Blackburn Defender Ryan Nelsen To Miss Remainder Of Season

“If the surgeon had gone in and looked at his knee in January he’d have probably done the same operation,” Blackburn manager Steve Kean said in a statement to the club’s website. “So with good medical back-up we’ve managed to get him on the pitch more times than we thought we would have got. The prognosis is that he’ll be back some time in August, he just has to rest up for a month and do the rehab from there.”

“Fortunately for us we lose Ryan at a time when Phil Jones is back fully fit,” said Kean. “He’s slotted back in there and looked like he’d never been away from central defence so that is fantastic for us, but it is unfortunate that we lose Nelly.”