Probably not what you're thinking, given the misleading title, but just saw this on NUFC.com: "We've got good news on Shola, we're sending him to America; there's a basketball guy who specialises in protective masks for American NBA players. He's the only guy in the world who does that kind of thing and we're going to use him to protect Shola's cheekbone, so Shola could be back in two or three weeks." "Shola's sending out the signals that he'll play with it if he's given the guarantee that it will protect him and I think it will. The guy designs the mask to reflect the injury. "I'd say the NBA is more physical than the Premier League when it comes to cheekbone and eye socket injuries; you've got arms everywhere and rebounds and stuff, so if someone in the NBA, a 6ft 8in giant, is wearing one of those masks, I think I'd feel confident wearing it in a football match. "Shola's is a nasty injury and if he doesn't feel confident going into challenges then there's no point, so we've got to get him out to America, get it made and get him comfortable with it."
Be good if they could fit him up with some kind of scary voodoo mask that would frighten the opposition off!
