O'SHEA OK

Last updated : 25 July 2004 By Editor
"I won't be okay for this first game but hopefully I will be for the other two.

I just don't want to push it too much and come back too quickly, especially with
the amount of games coming up in August.

"It is going to be an important time and I have to be right."

O'Shea felt discomfort when walking and found out that the injury could have
occurred last season.

"They trimmed a little bit off the cartilage and I am told it is as good as new
now,'' he added.

"What the surgeon said to the doctor was that it may have happened during the
season. It was something that was waiting to happen.

"I was fortunate it did happen in the summer because it was obviously
off-season, no games. So I was lucky.

"It happened while I was walking and I just got it checked out. There was a
little problem there.''