Richard Keogh describes long road to big time as a ‘good story’

As Richard Keogh outlines every bump along his trek to the Euros, he’s well within his rights to pause and describe it as a “good story”.

The centre-back will be 30 by the time his next Championship campaign kicks off and he’ll have banked memories, including a likely marking job on Zlatan Ibrahimovic in Paris, from his summer excursion to France.

Keogh can have reason to cherish the upside of professional football, for his route was anything but straightforward. Desire persuaded him to up sticks as a teen from Stoke City for a spell in Iceland and he ended up spending two years in the lower reaches at Carlisle United.