Given, who signed a five-year contract with the club last season, was taken off with four minutes remaining in Saturday's 2-0 victory at West Ham following a collision with West Ham striker Marlon Harewood.

``Shay has had surgery to repair a small tear in his lower stomach,'' Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder said. ``He is comfortable and will have a short stay in hospital. We'll let things settle down now and it's too early to be putting any date on when he'll be expected back.''