Sam Allardyce celebrating Christmas with a good news about United’s Republic of Ireland road to recovery update. Damien Duff is now close to a return to action after scoring in yesterday Newcastle’s friendly match 4-1 defeat to Boro. But Allardyce will not have Duff to feature for Newcastle’s first-team this season.

“Damien played another 90 minutes and is getting stronger, but I don’t think he will be involved at all against Derby at the weekend,” Allardyce told the Northern Echo.

Duff is suffering a dislocation in the middle of his foot against Portsmouth back in April.

He’s have passed the toughest test of his football career with the latest injury, which according to his surgeon was the first of its kind that he’s ever seen happens to a professional footballer.

Big Sam hoped Duff would be able to play against Derby, but he added later that he just have to be patient with him.

Steven Taylor, Abdoulaye Faye and Shola Ameobi were all included in the friendly match but Sam Allardyce thought Steven Taylor is the only one who is likely to come back into the team for the Derby game.

Damien Duff revealed how lucky he is to have the extent of the horror injury which at one point had threatened to curtail his football career. He said on the official site, “You should have seen me when I first found out in the surgeon’s office, I broke down in tears.”

The surgeon who found out later that Duff injury back in April when he play against Portsmouth was a dislocation in the middle of his foot which is something that he has never seen happen to a professional footballer.

Duff returned to full training with his Newcastle team-mates last week but says that it’s too early to talk of a specific comeback date.

“It’s great to be back training with the lads and I’ve started my second week,” he added. “You take things for granted and being out for so long has made me appreciate things an awful lot more.”

Other player who experienced the darkest period of his career was Newcastle United’s Claudio Cacapa for his poor outing against Portsmouth.

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Well, injury in football was not a new thing. The most closely thing to every football players beside an air-filled sphere with a circumference of 68–70 cm (or 27–28 inches), a weight of 410–450g (or 14–16 ounces), inflated to a pressure of 60–110 kPa (or 8.5–15.6 psi) thingy, was the injury ghosts.

Newcastle United has suffering from injury hit lists for many years, even for hundred years since the club first competitive match after being United from Newcastle West and East-end.

One of our greatest legend, Alan Shearer was forced to get an early retirement when he gets another knee injury during the derby match against sunderland, although he is planning to hang-up his boots after the season ends.

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We have received the latest news about the injury situation for our midfielder Damien Duff. Sam Allardyce recently has been monitoring his recovery progress and he is worried that Republic of Ireland winger will need more time to deal with it.

Duff gets his last injury in April 2006 when Newcastle united playing against Portsmouth. Big Sam admits that his midfielder continues his recovery from a “career-threatening” foot injury.

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