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Dunne to be fit?

A week after being ruled out for three months with a broken foot after trying to set a new distance world record for kicking a hotel door, it has been announced that Richard Dunne is back in training today and is expected to be fit for the opening game at home to West Brom on Saturday.
The news is a massive bonus given that Sylvain Distin is out for the first couple of weeks and is another strange development in the Dunne injury saga as initially the club announced he had not suffered an injury that would keep him out of any games, only to then disclose he had actually broken a bone in his foot.
His powers of recovery must be something else, but maybe the club will announce on Friday that he actually underwent a succesful foot transplant. I'll bet Nicky Weaver is looking on in sheer disbelief.
However this injury has been managed it is vital we have him back and hopefully if young Nedum Onouha is fit to play, we shouldn't lose too much of a step in defence until Distin returns.