LEICESTER are fearing they could be without both Ben and Tom Youngs for the relegation dogfight in the Premiership,
Tigers announced yesterday that scrum-half Ben had undergone surgery on a shoulder in jury sustained in the Six Nations match against Scotland.
He will miss the rest of the season and is expected to be fit by early summer in time to be in England’s training squad for the World Cup.
About 90 minutes after that announcement Leicester’s season took a further turn for the worse when Tom Youngs was sent off in the second half of the match against Exeter.
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