Knee surgery rules Drogba out until new year

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 Knee surgery rules Drogba out until new year
The Guardian UK: Chelsea's Didier Drogba is expected to be out of action for the rest of the year after undergoing an operation on his left knee Saturday... --- Drogba's absence could be significant when they travel to face league leaders Arsenal this week. --- "There is no replacement for Didier because he is the best striker in the world," said Chelsea manager Avram Grant... [link]

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The Andriy Shevchenko Resurrection Train Gets a Slow Start Leaving the Station
Published 12/8/2007 by Brian at The Run of Play
... It’s never with a feeling of great moral comfort that you can get excited about a player’s injury, but at the same time, if Didier Drogba’s now-surgically-repaired knee broke away from Chelsea and founded its own three-ring circus, the only surprising thing about it would be the girth of the bearded lady. It’s got the club-v.-country subplot, the Drogba’s-imploding-relationship-with-Chelsea subplot, and best of all, the shot-at-redemption subplot for Andriy Shevchenko, who’s suddenly gone from being the most ...

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