Scott Carson has been delving into the memory bank as he pieces together his colourful life story. There is the Champions League winners’ medal that he tried to give away as a teenager, the Swiss army knife that Carson found on the edge of his penalty area one afternoon in Turkey and, of course, that miserable evening under the floodlights at Wembley in November 2007.
Life has rarely been dull for a goalkeeper who has racked up more than 350 appearances for 21 managers across nine different clubs during a nomadic career. Yet perhaps the most surprising statistic of all is that the man who was in goal for Leeds United’s last Premier League game, which was way back in 2004 and on the day when Claudio Ranieri waved goodbye to the Chelsea supporters, is still only 31 years old.
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