More injury woe for Pools star

Hartlepool striker James Brown could be set for another spell out after suffering an ankle injury against Leyton Orient.

The 24-year-old only recently returned to the starting line-up following a number of injury problems, but went over on his ankle during the first half of the 1-0 defeat on Tuesday night and had to be substituted. The striker will now have the injury assesssed. "It's such a shame," first-team coach Mick Wadsworth told the Echo. "His bad luck continues and it's just amazing. "It's just been this endless cycle of nearly getting there and boom, he's gone again. "He was so desperate to stay on but I knew in all honesty when he went down he'd probably have to come off. "Credit to him, he got it strapped up and had a go but in my mind I knew he had no chance and it was no surprise he had to be substituted."