Crocked Wallace faces more time on sidelines after injury flare-up

RANGERS captain Lee Wallace has suffered a setback as he looks to return to action following groin surgery.

The left-back (inset) has not played since being forced off during the Premiership draw with Partick Thistle in September.

Wallace went under the knife to cure a hernia problem earlier this year and had returned to training with the Light Blues squad in recent weeks. But boss Graeme Murty has now revealed the 30-year-old has another issue to contend with as he continues on the road to recovery. Murty told RangersTV: “He had a flare up from a small procedure to try and alleviate some tension i n his groin. “We are hopeful of

getting him back onto the grass this week but obviously it is a time where his body is telling him some signals that aren’t great for us.

“So we have to take our time with him and make sure we respect the athlete and get him back onto the grass and give him a load that is commensurate to his level and give him something he is capable of doing.

“Basically, he had an i njection i nto some scar tissue to try and break that up and sometimes you get a flare from that and increase your sensitivity and increase your irritation around that area, which isn’t nice to play with.

“But we are hopeful that in the next couple of days that will start to settle down and he can start to increase his load again.”