DAVID Norris will miss the start of the Ipswich Town season, it emerged today.

Elvin King

DAVID Norris will miss the start of the Ipswich Town season, it emerged today.

The 27-year-old, who cost £2million when purchased from Plymouth last January, has picked up a fresh heel injury on the same heel he had an operation on last season.

It will be next week before he is expected to return to full time training - and he has effectively been ruled out of at least the first two weeks of the 2008/09 campaign.

Norris missed the last six weeks of last season and it was not until he underwent an operation that he started to recover from a plantarfascia problem around his heel.

He picked up this new injury in the Brentford pre-season match, and Town physio Matt Byard said: “David had made a good recovery from surgery, but has picked up a completely new injury.

“It's in the same area however and we must wait for the inflammation to settle down before David can step up his training.”

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