Newcastle striker Peter Beardsley was less than a month away from making his first premier league appearance for United. The doctor had given the £1.3 million the go-ahead to return to full training, all bar physical contact a week later.
Peter Beardsley said “They said it would be eight weeks in total and it is five weeks on Monday since the injury. It looks like I am just about on course but I won’t really know until I start next week. You can do all the running you like, but you don’t really know how fit you are until you are back in training.”
Kevin Keegan said “Peter’s making good progress. He is on schedule and badly wants to play football.”
