A heartening strand of Manchester United’s campaign has been the return to fitness and form of Phil Jones.
When he suffered medial knee-ligament damage in September, it was the 28th separate injury or illness he had suffered during his five years at the club. Rotten luck is an apt way to characterise a plague of problems that cast doubt over his robustness and seemed to permanently blight Jones’s hope of a rise to the very top, as once predicted by Sir Alex Ferguson.
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