Hargreaves faces more time out

Midfielder Owen Hargreaves will miss England's UEFA EURO 2008™ qualifiers against Estonia and Russia this month after being ruled out for four weeks with a knee injury.

Injection
The 26-year-old, who joined Manchester United FC this summer from FC Bayern München, has had an injection to cure tendonitis and missed Tuesday's UEFA Champions League victory against AS Roma. United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said: "That was an option we had from the very start if it surfaced again. He felt it in training so we decided to do something immediately. Hopefully that's the end of it and he comes back 100 per cent."

England doubts
Hargreaves missed last month's 3-0 wins against Israel and Russia with a thigh problem, having been previously troubled by tendonitis this summer. It adds to England's problems for the Group E visit of Estonia on 13 October and the crucial trip to Moscow four days later. Emile Heskey is out with a broken metatarsal, although captain John Terry (fractured cheekbone) and key striker Michael Owen (hernia) could yet recover from their ailments. Hargreaves is unlikely to be fit for United's UEFA Champions League game at FC Dynamo Kyiv in three weeks' time but could make the home return on 7 November.