OXFORD United skipper Mike Ford returns to action after serious injury when he plays for the reserves against Watford at Northwood FC tonight.
Ford has missed the last seven first-team games with a thigh injury, but physio John Clinkard reckons he was lucky.
"It was a very bad injury," said Clinkard. "His thigh muscle ruptured but fortunately, the rupture was along the length of the fibres rather than across them, otherwise we could have been talking about much longer."
United Res: Jackson, Rose, M Ford, Smith, Wilsterman, Whelan, Cook, Murphy, Powell, S Weatherstone, Folland. Subs: Wright, Bennett, Davies.
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