Our winger suffers from asthma apparently and Neil Warnock was saying in his pre match interview yesterday that the medication he takes for it was changed during the week. Mendez-Laing has been taking the same medication all season, but there is a suggestion now that this was a mistake because, while it was working fine during the warmer temperatures of the summer and autumn, it's now felt that it might be causing side effects in the cold of winter.

When you have as many players missing games through injuries and illness as we have, I suppose it's inevitable that supporters ask questions about things like treatment of injuries/illness and fitness coaching - I've raised doubts about these things myself, while at the same time feeling that I'm just looking for convenient scapegoats for poor results and performances at a time when we have so many first teamers unavailable, but this sort of thing can only make you wonder whether there is a problem after all.