Hartley Adds To Injury Woes with Scotland Injury

Paul Hartley is the latest Celtic player to join the injury list after the on form goal scoring machine (lol) picked up an ankle -knock in last night's 1-0 defeat by Argentina at Hampden. This is not good news given the amount of injuries that we already have and this could lead to us being left short in the centre of midfield with Scott Brown and Massimo Donati our only fit central midfielders at this time.

This questions the wisdom in us allowing so many players to play in a meaningless friendly when we are so short of fit players at this time. With our ever expanding injury list we could have been forgiven for not being so well represented but I can understand why players would wish to play in such a match

"I came off after 60 minutes with a knock and I'll need to see the medical staff at Celtic before I know if I'll be fit for the weekend," Hartley said. "I've taken a kick on my ankle, it's swollen up and it's stiff just now.

"It's obviously not what my club manager wants to hear. We have a fair amount of injuries already and Barry Robson has been injured too. I just hope I'll be okay for Saturday and I'll see how it goes over the next 48 hours.

"If I can, I would rather play both against St Mirren and Aalborg, but we'll need to see what happens."

Looks like Donati will be starting against St Mirren then doesn't it?

Yours in Celtic

Clydebuilt

Hartley Adds To Injury Woes with Scotland Injury

Last updated : 20 November 2008 By Clydebuilt