Doyle eager to enhance growing reputation

FOR a man who took so long to find his way beyond base camp, Kevin Doyle will complete a meteoric rise to the summit when he makes his international football debut against Sweden tonight.

Doyle admitted he never envisaged this day arriving so soon after leaving Cork City for Reading last summer.

What he must have been thinking 24 months ago, languishing out of position on the right side of midfield, at Turner’s Cross, is anyone’s guess.