AIDEN FOR THE GOALDEN BOOT

AIDAN KEENA fancies his chances of winning this sea- son's Golden Boot - because his rivals failed to take advantage of his six-week injury absence.

- BY MARK McCADDEN

Considering he missed so many games with a hamstring injury, the St Patrick’s Athletic striker reckons he is doing well to be just three goals behind leading scorer Moses Dyer.

The Galway United man is on eight goals for the campaign and his heroics have earned him the SSE Airtricity/SWI Player of the Month award for March.

But having scored his five goals to date in just his first four appearances of the campaign, Keena says he is still very much in the mix for the honour.

He was asked if he had his eye on the top scorer prize and replied: "Kind of, but at the same time if you're giving them six weeks, you're going to have to catch up, know what I mean, I have to get myself going again.