UPDATE – The news is worse than first feared for Hull City and new signing Jimmy Bullard as the 30 year old has undergone ACL Reconstruction.

A club statement read: ‘Jimmy Bullard underwent a procedure last night in America to repair a torn cartilage.

‘Whilst performing the arthroscopy, the surgeon noticed fresh damage to his anterior cruciate ligament.

‘In the best interests of both the player and Hull City Football Club it was decided to undertake a reconstruction of the damaged ligament which means that Jimmy will be unavailable for the remainder of this season.

After making just one very short cameo appearance after signing for Hull City for a 5 Million Pound fee from Fulham, sometimes England International Jimmy Bullard is on his way to Colorado to see knee specialist to the football elite, Dr. Richard Steadman.

Via HullCityAFC

Jimmy Bullard will be having an arthroscopy on Wednesday to deal with a small tear in his cartilage.

Hull City agree with Jimmy that the best man to perform this procedure is the surgeon who dealt with his knee injury while he was playing for Fulham.

Jimmy will therefore be going to Denver, where the surgeon is based, for this treatment.

We will provide a further update after the operation.

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