Keith O'Neill (footballer)
Keith O'Neill (born 16 February 1976) is a former professional footballer who represented the Republic of Ireland.Despite being an exceptionally talented youngster, his career was ultimately cut short by successive injuries caused by a degenerative bone disease.O'Neill began his playing career with Dublin side Tolka Rovers at the age of 6 before transferring to Home Farm.The injury problems, some of them stemming him having suffered from spondylosis as a child,[1] affected him virtually from the start of his career and ultimately curtailed his progress.While at Coventry, he was diagnosed with two degenerative bone conditions in his spine, spondylolisthesis and spondylosis, which was essentially a double fracture of part of the cord that threatened to leave him disabled.