'It has been a difficult time for him' - injury update on Chesterfield goalkeeper Luke Coddington

The 25-year-old suffered a serious knee injury in the match against Yeovil Town last December and then had another setback in his recovery earlier this year.

Spireites boss John Pemberton told the DT: “He is still working one-to-one with the medical department.

“We are probably looking at him, realistically, round about Christmas, so he is still a bit off yet.

“Once he starts to step his work up then we will see how his injury is recovering.

“Hopefully there are no knock-backs on it.

“We are told he is making good progress.

“It has been a really difficult time for him.

“What we are trying to do is keep him around.

“When you have got an injury like that and you have been out a long time you tend to do a lot of the work on your own, but I like to get him up to the training ground as much as we can and try and get him to do some work in and around the lads.”

Pemberton added: “I don’t think he particularly enjoys watching the games when he is not playing, that is a difficult one fo him, but some people are like that and I am okay with that. I think that is quite a normal scenario for people to be in.

“He is quite positive. I think the set-back he had towards the end of last season knocked him a little bit but he has got his head round it and he is now on the mend.”