This article is part of Football FanCast's Injury News series, which considers the impact of the latest updates on players' fitness.

A football manager has a lot of decisions to make, to say the least.

They must organise the training drills on a daily basis, they must keep their players happy and maintain a good level of morale throughout the squad, and crucially, they must pick the starting XI.

Some managers might complain about a lack of options, but in Roy Hodgson's case, he has a specifically luxurious area of his squad that gives him the right kind of selection headache.

In Mamadou Sakho, James Tomkins, Gary Cahill, Martin Kelly and Scott Dann, the former England manager is blessed to have a wealth of options in his side at centre-back.

However, the first two names in that bunch have struggled with injury problems this season - Sakho has managed just three Premier League appearances, whereas Tomkins has none.

In their absence, Cahill and Kelly have shone. The duo have helped Palace concede just eight goals in eight league games, keeping the joint-most clean sheets in the division with three.

We recently put the question to Football FanCast's writers about whether or not the impressive Kelly should keep his place when either of Sakho or Tomkins return, describing it as a 'selection headache' for the 72-year-old Palace boss.

If Hodgson was worried about that decision though, he can afford to put the headache on ice for another week at least after it was revealed by The Evening Standard that Sakho remains a doubt for Saturday's game against Manchester City.

The France international missed the start of the season after needing knee surgery, and was absent for games against Norwich and West Ham with a strain that has made him a doubt for the match against the champions.

While we presume that Hodgson would prefer to have as many options available to him as possible, the dilemma that is deciding who should start at centre-back can at least be put on ice for another week.