Worried about this injury - hopefully we can wrap him in cotton wool and nurse him through games. Crofts while solid just doesn't get us going forward in the same pass and move way as our genius 7 and it's still to early to say if the more filled out Sidwell has the energy of old.
It wouldn't surprise me - still a class act but not quite the force of the first part of the season. The signing of Sidwell is so vital as Boro showed us the importance of having 3 or 4 interchangeable front line midfielders. A big part of our December dip was the knackering of our genius 7 and...