Surgery costs Feyenoord's Collen

Finger surgery
The 26-year-old Belgian international fractured a ring finger in training last week and had an operation to have a metal pin inserted in the digit. However, by the end of the week, he was complaining of muscle pain and breathing problems, culminating in his admission to hospital with a collapsed lung.

Too deep
Feyenoord doctor Robbart van Linschoten said: "For finger surgery, the anaesthetic is administered with a shot below the collarbone, but if the shot is just three millimetres too deep, the needle makes a hole in the lung which will make it collapse slowly. On Monday we found that had happened to Collen and he was taken to hospital." Collen is expected to be released from hospital today but it is not clear when he will be ready to resume training.