Richard Keogh is willing to play with a broken hand as the Republic of Ireland are set to begin their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign.
The Derby County defender broke a bone in his right hand on Wednesday during their Championship stalemate against Stoke City.
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Richard Keogh broke his hand while playing for Derby
The 32-year-old chose not to have surgery as that would have ruled him out for the matches against Gibraltar and Georgia.
Keogh said: “I went for the X-ray and at first they were talking about surgery.
“This was before I spoke to the hand surgeon and I didn’t particularly want to do that, I wanted to get his opinion first before I did anything.
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“When I spoke to him, I just said, ‘Listen, if there’s a chance of me playing, I just want to carry on playing if that’s at all possible. I don’t want to have surgery’. I’d rather just take the risk, I suppose, and just crack on.
“He saw the X-ray and said, ‘I think we can do that’. If it hadn’t been the middle of my finger where it’s protected by the other two, I think I might have had to have surgery and been out for bit.
“But fingers crossed, with this now, I can just resume training, playing and carry on, so it worked out well in the end.”
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If selected, Keogh will wear a protective cast, insisting he has not taken any risks by declaring himself available.
He said: “I had a good conversation with him [the hand surgeon], and he said he’s seen this injury a few times and people have played with it.”
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