Cats handed Dan Ballard injury blow - watch The Roar on Shots!TV - video Dailymotion

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00:00So I think it's fair to surmise that we'll be without Ballard probably until the middle

00:04of January, the latter stages of January. So it's a shame, isn't it? Because Ballard's

00:10obviously been, we know that he's in Sunderland's best 11. He is such a brilliant defender,

00:14but he's having a bit of a stop-start season and he just can't seem to quite get a long

00:18run of runs together. The shame about this is the timing after two goals, obviously his

00:22confidence was really up. So yeah, I think realistically, he's not going to play any

00:27part over the sort of New Year fixtures.