Coming Soon - Paddy Kenny 'The gloves are off...'

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Having read He’s One Of Our Own (and imminently about to start the sequel) I’ve no doubt it will be well written, but I share the view that his is a story I might read selected extracts from rather than be interested in the full book. I think the only one of that period that might be good for a book would be Montgomery, as his time with us spans 2000 all the way through to League 1. That’s relatively speaking a hell of a lot of ups and downs to cover.
Each to their own :D
 

Each to their own :D

At a guess, the book covers the following:
  • Chapter 1: unlikely beginnings to get into football (“I was told I was never likely to make it in football”)
  • Chapter 2: Bradford Park Avenue (“I was told I was never likely to make it in professional football”)
  • Chapter 3: emergence at Bury and transfer to United (“we screwed over Bury a bit on the price, but it was nothing to do with me”)
  • Chapter 4: the great triple assault season (“It was a great season that. Couldn’t believe what was going on in front of me in Cardiff”)
  • Chapter 5: 2003-05 (“Muscat came off worse than me” and “I couldn’t dive on one side, I really shouldn’t have played”)
  • Chapter 6: 2005-06 (“Great team spirit”)
  • Chapter 7: 2006-07 (“We were unlucky. Some of us lost something that season. Webber lost his ability to score. Warnock lost his job. I lost one of my eyebrows.”)
  • Chapter 8: 2007-09 (“Robson was bad. Blackwell was better, but ultimately a twat.”)
  • Chapter 9: 2009-10 (“This was crazy. It genuinely was cough medicine, but unknown to me the 15-year old George Long spiked it in order to try and get me out and accelerate his ultimate future rise”)
  • Chapter 10: 2010-11 (“Leaving Blackwell to reunite with Warnock for more money was one of the easiest decisions in my career”)
  • Chapter 11: (“We were lucky, we had a mad transfer window. Hughes was a bit meh”)
  • Chapter 12: Ireland (“I didn’t even know I had Irish relatives till I got the call, but I can only thank my parents for having the foresight to give me a stereotypical Irish name to help alert the Irish FA”)
  • Chapter 13: retirement (“I just found it difficult to motivate myself“)
How close am I?
 
At a guess, the book covers the following:
  • Chapter 1: unlikely beginnings to get into football (“I was told I was never likely to make it in football”)
  • Chapter 2: Bradford Park Avenue (“I was told I was never likely to make it in professional football”)
  • Chapter 3: emergence at Bury and transfer to United (“we screwed over Bury a bit on the price, but it was nothing to do with me”)
  • Chapter 4: the great triple assault season (“It was a great season that. Couldn’t believe what was going on in front of me in Cardiff”)
  • Chapter 5: 2003-05 (“Muscat came off worse than me” and “I couldn’t dive on one side, I really shouldn’t have played”)
  • Chapter 6: 2005-06 (“Great team spirit”)
  • Chapter 7: 2006-07 (“We were unlucky. Some of us lost something that season. Webber lost his ability to score. Warnock lost his job. I lost one of my eyebrows.”)
  • Chapter 8: 2007-09 (“Robson was bad. Blackwell was better, but ultimately a twat.”)
  • Chapter 9: 2009-10 (“This was crazy. It genuinely was cough medicine, but unknown to me the 15-year old George Long spiked it in order to try and get me out and accelerate his ultimate future rise”)
  • Chapter 10: 2010-11 (“Leaving Blackwell to reunite with Warnock for more money was one of the easiest decisions in my career”)
  • Chapter 11: (“We were lucky, we had a mad transfer window. Hughes was a bit meh”)
  • Chapter 12: Ireland (“I didn’t even know I had Irish relatives till I got the call, but I can only thank my parents for having the foresight to give me a stereotypical Irish name to help alert the Irish FA”)
  • Chapter 13: retirement (“I just found it difficult to motivate myself“)
How close am I?
And you think Montgomery's (pretty much the same on-field stuff, without anything off-field or doing anything at any other club/internationally) would be more interesting? Genuine question.
Not very, by the way - apart from the young George Long. Can't believe he told you that story as well!
 
And you think Montgomery's (pretty much the same on-field stuff, without anything off-field or doing anything at any other club/internationally) would be more interesting? Genuine question.

Genuine answer: I’d only really be interested in the United parts, and only feel as though it was worth reading if it provided something new. Monty’s career covered all of Kenny’s United career, plus 2 seasons before and a few after. I haven’t seen a single thing written that covers that dire 2011 season, or the early League 1 period for example. I’m not particularly interested in Kenny’s post-United career, nor really what came before it. Each to their own as you said.
 
Even if some on here wouldn't be that interested in a book about Paddy Kenny I'm looking forward to reading it (although I'll certainly not be paying £15 for it, i'll give it a year and get it for a couple of quid on Amazon). He's always struck me as a bit of a character, on and off the pitch, I reckon they'll be plenty of decent stories to fill 250-300 pages, plus he was one of the main stays in a fairly successful United team in recent history. I'd certainly take reading a book about Paddy Kenny over Nicholas Montgomery, although any chapter with the heading "How to pass, shoot and cross a football the Nicholas way" would have to be viewed as comedy gold.
 
I once saw PK and told the story of what he told me on here and got ridiculed.

Hopefuly his book will now clarify that what I said was infact the truth.

 
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I once saw PK and told the story of what he told me on here and got ridiculed.

Hopefuly his book will now clarify that what I said was infact the truth.


There’s not a single person that’s replied in that thread that has ridiculed either you, or the truth of the story of what you claimed was said. What was ridiculed was Kenny’s version of the story – which frankly might still be the case after it’s been aired in the book.

Some great nostalgia seeing some of the characters on that thread though. Darren, puppet, Deleted member 2102...
 
I bumped into Paddy in a pub in Dublin shortly after his first season at QPR. I had a pint with him and his mate. Paddy was a top guy, friendly and very humble. I reminded him about his first game back at the Lane for QPR when Gary Sinclair was naming the teams he announced Steve Simonsen as “the best goalkeeper in the championship” which Paddy remembered. They were 3-0 up after 23 mins which ended up being a great result as it meant Blackwell was gone. Paddy wouldn’t spill the beans on his last days as a Blade but his mate told me he’d been treated despicably by the club and Paddy would write a book some day!
 
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I thought the game against Baslow had been set up by Mike Blundell (estate agent) who was a director at the time.

I remember going to the match but can't recall where I parked. Must have been a nightmare with 3-4000 there.

There was more people there for my granddaughters sports day last year than that game.

It was the day though, that I realised the game had gone mad, when Iffy Onura or whatever he's called pulled up in a better car than mine.
 
There was more people there for my granddaughters sports day last year than that game.
Which athletics stadium was it at? :)
From the BBC:
The expected crowd of about 2,500 was near enough a spot-on prediction, and the 20-plus police escort surrounding this normally sleepy village signified that this match was as important as any other for United on the grounds of safety.
 
The last time I saw Paddy Kenny was a couple of years back where he was falling out of one of the roughest boozers in the centre of Rotherham absolutely off his face at 4pm.

This also could be a rare case of someone writing a book before ever actually reading one.
I think the Boozer was The County Borough.
I bumped into him in Parkgate Retail world a few years back going to car, he looked rough, his mr's was in car and looked pissed off. had a quick chat asked him what he was up to if doing any coaching, he said he was doing fuck all.

I thought he negotiated the transfer while banned? It was reported at the time that McCabe had him pay his wages back.
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I thought he renegotiated his contract with a 400k release clause. Warnock knew about it and bought him straight away (or whatever the actual sale amount was).

I'm sure Warnock mentions something in his Book "The Gaffer" about this something like the club treated paddy bad, so he jumped at the chance to go to QPR but thats Warnocks version.
 
I think the Boozer was The County Borough.
I bumped into him in Parkgate Retail world a few years back going to car, he looked rough, his mr's was in car and looked pissed off. had a quick chat asked him what he was up to if doing any coaching, he said he was doing fuck all.

yes it was indeed The County.
 

I'd love to know the story behind his drugs ban and departure. I hated him when he fucked off after his ban was up .It seemed we looked after him and he shit on us .
But I guess there is a lot of shit I dont know.
I hated him 10 mins into the Burnley play-off final, he just didn't seem to turn up that day, mind you, neither did some of the others.
 
I hated him 10 mins into the Burnley play-off final, he just didn't seem to turn up that day, mind you, neither did some of the others.

Tbf to him he was probably off his tits on cough medicine.
 
I hated him 10 mins into the Burnley play-off final, he just didn't seem to turn up that day, mind you, neither did some of the others.
How does a goalkeeper ‘not turn up’?
 
Not sure that this would be a very interesting read.

Maybe the bit about why he left after the drugs test and the Muscat fight but 300 pages of stories of him getting drunk in a restaurant/pub and then having a fight. Not sure anyone outside of a few hundred United fans would be that bothered. Enjoyed Danny Hall's other books but I am not sure many people are desperate to read a story about a journeyman keeper from the lower leagues noone has really heard of outside of the clubs he played for. Think maybe an article in the Star may have sufficed here but a whole book?

I think there are other United players that would generate more interest - Billy Whitehurst for instance, although his might be full of fights also come to think of it!

The title might be, "Fights in a Tight shirt"
or maybe not ;)
 


A couple of Biggs highlights in those.

1. Sharp has just responded to the question on whether he‘d right a book. He’s said maybe, but certainly not right now as “there are a few chapters he’d still like to write in his career”. Bag to Biggs: “Of course Billy, for you there are probably some chapters still to be written in your career” – 0/10 on the active listening front.

2. I can’t remember exactly where in the 2nd half of that it happens but Biggs attempts to crack a joke, pauses for the video delay of the laughter from the others, then after an awkward gap realises that the silence isn’t due to any delay with the video and swiftly moves on.

Warnock I note is doing the Foreword for the Kenny book. From Kenny’s description of his departure he just seemed to basically say he never wanted to leave, and really didn’t want to ever move to London, but that because the offer had been accepted and Blackwell made no attempt to stop the deal he decided to move. So he’s desperate to stay, but it took relatively little to actually force him out? You didn’t even get a sense he’d made even one suggestion to Birch or Blackwell that he’d like to turn down the opportunity to move, which hardly sounds like a player even remotely desperate to stay.
 
A couple of people I know have had non-football dealings with Paddy. He apparently has poor choice in friends, and is not the brightest of lads, to paraphrase what I’ve been told.
 
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The book is now available to pre-order and all orders via the publisher's website will receive a limited-edition bookplate signed by the man himself.

 
You just knew something was going on when he just left straight after the ban, it was suspicious that our number one keeper for years, a man who know loved the club left like that. Surprise surprise Old Mcabe fucked him off and lied to the fans again. We went bloody ages without a good keeper after that,he was up there with Tracey, Rees, kelly and only now do wehave a worthy replacement. Thanks Kev, fucking cunt. poor Paddy was shafted then hung out to dry.
 

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