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

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Bearlie said:
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.
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After listening to the Michael Tonge undr the Cosh, the other day I think there may be more to it than meets the eye.

Basically when Tonge moved to Stoke. Blackwell said to him....’I don’t want you to go but I’ve been told not to persuade you to stay’

Guessing Paddy would have been one of the highest earners at the club at the time too so no doubt this could have been McCabe’s doing.
 
Bearlie said:
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.
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That may raise a few eyebrows......

Wonder if it will tell of his dealings with some denizens of Woodhouse?
 
BettingBlade said:
After listening to the Michael Tonge undr the Cosh, the other day I think there may be more to it than meets the eye.

Basically when Tonge moved to Stoke. Blackwell said to him....’I don’t want you to go but I’ve been told not to persuade you to stay’

Guessing Paddy would have been one of the highest earners at the club at the time too so no doubt this could have been McCabe’s doing.
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I thought he negotiated the transfer while banned? It was reported at the time that McCabe had him pay his wages back.
 
Sean Thornton said:
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 don’t remember that tbh but seem to remember there was a lot of daft stuff flying around about transfers at that time. Beattie flu being a case in point.

Think McCabe was just desperate to get the wage bill down by that point.
 
As ever it will always be shades of grey (the real sort not that pseudo porn sort) in almost all transfer moves.
 
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.
 
He's never struck me as the smartest of folk.

Cracking highlight reel of saves though, dependable.

Sour taste around how he left us. I suspect many are the same.

I expect there'll be a few snipes at folk in there too, I don't know why, but I anticipate some bitterness about some stuff.
 



BettingBlade said:
After listening to the Michael Tonge undr the Cosh, the other day I think there may be more to it than meets the eye.

Basically when Tonge moved to Stoke. Blackwell said to him....’I don’t want you to go but I’ve been told not to persuade you to stay’

Guessing Paddy would have been one of the highest earners at the club at the time too so no doubt this could have been McCabe’s doing.
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Can't see that on Spotify. Is it a premium episode?
 
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!
 
Deadbat said:
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!
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‘A journeyman ‘keeper from the lower leagues’ who had three real clubs as a pro, played for two clubs at the highest level and for his country?
 
stringer said:
‘A journeyman ‘keeper from the lower leagues’ who had three real clubs as a pro, played for two clubs at the highest level and for his country?
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I think my point is he is not really well known to average football fans - he spent maybe 2 seasons out of a 20 year career at the top level - and played for 10 clubs not three I think. I was surprised he played for Ireland 7 times? Was he the back up to Given - i assume these were friendly games but still impressive to get that many caps as I thought he had only played maybe once or twice.

I am not sure outside of a few United and maybe QPR fans who would be that interested in reading 300 pages on him. Just did not think he is worth 'a book'

Maybe loads of Blades would spend £15 on his book but I doubt it.
 
Deadbat said:
I think my point is he is not really well known to average football fans - he spent maybe 2 seasons out of a 20 year career at the top level - and played for 10 clubs not three I think. I was surprised he played for Ireland 7 times? Was he the back up to Given - i assume these were friendly games but still impressive to get that many caps as I thought he had only played maybe once or twice.

I am not sure outside of a few United and maybe QPR fans who would be that interested in reading 300 pages on him. Just did not think he is worth 'a book'

Maybe loads of Blades would spend £15 on his book but I doubt it.
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He played for 8 clubs, if we're splitting hairs. One was Maltby Main...
Three real clubs as a pro'. United, QPR and Leeds. Won promotion to the Prem with two of them. Play-off finals, promotion, relegation, Tevez affair, drugs ban, controversial sale, promotion again, on the wrong end of the most famous goal in PL history, moved to one of biggest clubs in the country, which was also a basket case, as had his previous.
That's just on-field stuff. If you don't fancy it, that's absolutely fine though :)
 
Deadbat said:
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!
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It could work in a niche book sort of way. I've enjoyed books by Lars Leese and Neil Redfearn and I wouldn't have thought either of those would be in high demand.

I feel though that the bits that would be most "interesting" about Paddy might be the bits he wouldn't want putting in a book.
 
stringer said:
He played for 8 clubs, if we're splitting hairs. One was Maltby Main...
Three real clubs as a pro'. United, QPR and Leeds. Won promotion to the Prem with two of them. Play-off finals, promotion, relegation, Tevez affair, drugs ban, controversial sale, promotion again, on the wrong end of the most famous goal in PL history, moved to one of biggest clubs in the country, which was also a basket case, as had his previous.
That's just on-field stuff. If you don't fancy it, that's absolutely fine though :)
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Sounds like you are on commision -you could write the blurb for it!

There might be a few interesting stories but genuinely dont think he's that interesting or known as a character for a book to sell many copies outside of a few hundred Blades maybe.

I might be wrong. We'll see when it is released. Sort of book that will be in the Works for a quid in a few years time I anticipate! 😂
 
Deadbat said:
Sounds like you are on commision -you could write the blurb for it!

There might be a few interesting stories but genuinely dont think he's that interesting or known as a character for a book to sell many copies outside of a few hundred Blades maybe.

I might be wrong. We'll see when it is released. Sort of book that will be in the Works for a quid in a few years time I anticipate! 😂
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We'll see :)
 
Sean Thornton said:
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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If only stringer had used that laughing smiley two and a half years ago when I and at least one other poster mentioned it, in a thread he was involved in. ( and suggested,when asked if there was a link between the SY Times and the Star, that there wasn’t. When it was pointed out they were both owned by Johnston Press, even the smileys went missing).

Wonder if he’ll suggest that I wasn’t in the pub on more than one occasion when PK was there and that Colin never said the wages had been settled as part of the QPR deal?
 
Sean Thornton said:
( and suggested,when asked if there was a link between the SY Times and the Star, that there wasn’t. When it was pointed out they were both owned by Johnston Press, even the smileys went missing).
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Wrong. It was suggested the SYT is/was a ‘spin-off’ of The Star. It isn’t/wasn’t. That thread was apparently two and a half years ago though, so I’ll forgive your fading memory...
:) :) :) :) :) :) :)
 



stringer said:
Wrong. It was suggested the SYT is/was a ‘spin-off’ of The Star. It isn’t/wasn’t. That thread was apparently two and a half years ago though, so I’ll forgive your fading memory...
:) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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We know you aren’t particularly forthcoming with the minutiae when the chips are down. You knew full well what the point was.

Like not commenting on the rest of my post.
 
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