BURY skipper Chris Lucketti's latest spot of trouble is the pits. The £1.5m-rated powerhouse missed Saturday's 3-0 home hammering by Ipswich with a knee injury and has now been mysteriously floored by - a shower gel.

The new skin cleaner brought luckless Lucketti out in dozens of tender swollen lumps under both armpits yesterday and he was immediately sent home from training to prevent the condition from spreading to his team-mates.

It was too late for fellow injury victim John Foster who shared Lucketti's gel and came out in lumps on his arms and chest. Lucketti saw a skin specialist who diagnosed the condition as folicolitis and put Lucketti on a course of anti-biotics.

"There was just one lump at first," Lucketti explained today. The next day all under my armpits was swollen. There were a dozen lumps under both armpits which were really tender.

"I didn't know what to make of it and all I could think of was that it was the new gel. Only myself and John Foster use it so I thought it must be that.

"Whatever it is I don't think any of the other players will come anywhere near me." Lucketti missed Bury's first defeat in four games on Saturday and he is desperate to be fit for the visit to fellow relegation-threatened Portsmouth on Saturday.

Mark Patterson could go straight back into the Shakers side at Pompey after returning to Gigg Lane today following a month on loan at Blackpool.

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