Buckley will miss Sunday’s FAI Cup final having sustained a very serious injury last month.
The 2021 FAI Cup final was Keith Buckley’s initial swansong with Bohemians; the captain’s final game before heading off on his travels. It was a bitter end, with Bohs beaten by Pat’s on penalties and denied an extra-time victory by a clearance that was either on or behind the goal-line, depending on who you ask.
But Buckley’s dreams of glorious atonement were destroyed less than a month before the final and in Bohs penultimate home game of the season against, you guessed it, St Pat’s.“I saw the ball and then tried to hop up”, says Buckley. “I knew, ‘Ah yeah, there’s something here.’ But in my mind I was thinking, ‘I’ll be okay for the final.
“I had about an hour in the hospital and that was it”, replies Buckley when asked if it has taken him long to come to terms with the injury. “Nothing you can do. Three other limbs working. I’m healthy, I’m happy, what can you do? Sit around moping? It would be worse. You got to keep the mind healthy and happy and prepare properly.”“Ten years ago I’d probably be pushing to be back by the summer”, he says. “But you sit down, look at all the analysis and see how rare it is.
Tom Grivosti of St Pat’s was also in touch, having suffered an ACL injury of his own in May of this year. The PFAI, meanwhile, have offered Buckley the services of sports psychologist Mark Larkin, with whom another Pat’s player, Joe Redmond, has worked. The players’ union are also helping Buckley change the scenery of his rehab, and he plans to do a section of it at St George’s Park in England and, later, to do some warm weather training in Portugal.
“I have only be re-watching his documentary”, says Buckley. “I do look at him sometimes to get a bit of motivation. I have been chatting to him because obviously he done it. As he said, it is a journey now, a process for your mind. You will find out a lot more mentally about yourself that you never did before and how the body moves in different ways when you come back. He has been a help in that way.
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