TAYLOR TO HAVE SCAN

Newcastle United's Steven Taylor is scheduled to have a scan on his ankle today.

The 23-year-old first picked up the injury against Arsenal last month and had only just returned to the side when he suffered a re-occurrence of the problem during the game against Spurs on Sunday.

The defender only managed 45 minutes before being replaced by Alan Smith at half-time.

And boss Alan Shearer told nufc.co.uk this week: "We felt Steven was ready to start and he'd had a good couple of days' training.

"But he's felt it again and we had to take him off at half-time.

"He'll have a scan on Tuesday so we'll know more then."