Sean St Ledger ready to jump over another hurdle

Sean St Ledger might be assured of a permanent place in the records as one of only five Irish players to score at the European Championship finals — even if his header in the 3-1 defeat to Croatia was, in the context of an otherwise miserable Euro 2012 for Ireland, the very definition of a consolation goal.

But five years on, and now acutely conscious he’s in danger of becoming one of the game’s forgotten men, the veteran defender is anxious to let football people know this saint is very much alive: battered, yes, but unbowed.

“I’m 32 and I’ve been in America so everyone I see, it’s ‘oh, are you retired?’ And I’m, like, ‘not officially’.”