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Wed 04 Apr 2003Butler's season may well be at an end
News round-up: Sunderland midfielder Thomas Butler's season could be over after a scan revealed a tear in his calf muscle. The 21-year-old was forced to withdraw from the Republic of Ireland under-21 squad last week with the problem.
Butler's injury is all the more galling as he had only just returned from a niggling hamstring problem which had blighted his attempt to build on his emergence into the first-team.
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