Lamont faces Six Nations fitness fight after injury
SCOTTISH rugby prize-guy Sean Lamont could be facing a battle to be fit for this season's RBS Six Nations Championship.
The 26-year-old winger, who was voted Scotland's top player of 2006-07, is currently receiving treatment for what his Northampton club have now described as "a serious injury to the ligaments in his right knee".
Lamont, who took his cap tally to 35 during the recent World Cup, underwent an MRI scan after being assisted from the pitch after just 17 minutes of Saturday's English National League clash with Birmingham Pertemps Bees.
Northampton Director of rugby Jim Mallinder is concerned. "He looked in agony," Mallinder said in immediately ruling Lamont out of Saturday's match with Exeter Chiefs. Meanwhile, the French media has reported that All Blacks scrum half Byron Kelleher is being rested and will miss Toulouse's visit to Edinburgh in the Heineken European Cup on Saturday.
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