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Cardiff Blues received a boost ahead of the Heineken Cup when British and Irish Lions star Jamie Roberts was given the all-clear after a worrying neck injury.

Wales centre Roberts (pictured) sustained a head injury in a clash with Scarlets wing Sean Lamont last week and sat out the Blues 21-15 home defeat to Glasgow.

But Roberts confirmed that he has been given the all clear for the visit of Harlequins on Saturday.

I've had a couple of scans on my neck and the spinal surgeon has given me the all-clear, 22-year-old Roberts said on the ERC website.

"He advised me not to play this weekend but I will start contact work early this week and I will be fit for Harlequins.

"When it happened, I was massively worried and it was a scary moment because it felt quite serious.

"You hear all about the horrific neck injuries that players pick up in simple and innocuous tackles and I hardly slept last Saturday.

"I went to hospital straight after the game for an x-ray but I was still in absolute agony at seven o'clock on the Sunday morning - moving my neck was a joke and extremely painful.

"I hoped it wasn't a fracture and fortunately the scans showed it was just muscular. I'm very fortunate I'm okay and counting myself lucky."

Roberts's return to fitness will significantly strengthen a Blues side without Martyn Williams, Gethin Jenkins, Xavier Rush and Ma'ama Molitika for the clash at Cardiff City Stadium.

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