Happy 40th birthday Paddy Kenny!

[1973Blade]

An excellent goalkeeper for us, only Alan Kelly has been better in the time I have supported us. He's still playing for Maltby Main. One of two players I regret booing in the heat of the moment (when he was playing for QPR at the Lane, looking back he made the right decision professionally to leave a sinking ship). Brian Deane is the second player I regret booing, when he scored in the Kop end for Leeds.
Happy 40th Paddy, just keep off the cough medicine!

 

[derfblade.3]

An excellent goalkeeper for us, only Alan Kelly has been better in the time I have supported us. He's still playing for Maltby Main. One of two players I regret booing in the heat of the moment (when he was playing for QPR at the Lane, looking back he made the right decision professionally to leave a sinking ship). Brian Deane is the second player I regret booing, when he scored in the Kop end for Leeds.
Happy 40th Paddy, just keep off the cough medicine!

I would boo him again! Looked after him through his drugs ban , then he shits on us.....fuck him!

 

[cal the blade]

Can't help but still like him one of my favourite players growing up and best keeper I've personally seen at the lane . He also still considers himself a blade ... Not condoning what he did but Christ ever heard of forgive and forget?

 

[1973Blade]

I would boo him again! Looked after him through his drugs ban , then he shits on us.....fuck him!

I hope we avoid Maltby Main in the Cup!

 

[cahill]

Tony Currie was booed when he came back with Leeds. It’s how football is

 

[SuperDuperBlades]

Kenny and Morgan. Pretty formidable.

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

I hope the prick gets his other eyebrow bitten off...for his birthday.

 

[CarlingBlade]

Tracey, Kelly & Paddy top 3 for me, throw in Mel Rees if he'd had longer with us.

Just goes to show, football is all about making ££'s, loyalty has gone.

One player who was loyal was Currie, turned down Man U to sign a 6yr contract at the Lane, not many players would do that these days.

 

[bornablade]

Kenny and Brian Deane shouldn't be mentioned in the same post.

Deane is a true legend.

 

[JackSUFC]

Saw Paddy not too long ago walking/swaying through Leeds with his missus on a Sunday afternoon. She was carrying a bottle of wine and he was all over her.

Nothing but love for him for his services here!

 

[Esablade]

Big character, big man...not the sharpest tool in the box but a Blade nonetheless!
Happy Birthday and look after yourself.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Two players we haven't properly replaced since our slide started in 2007. One was Morgan, the other was Paddy. Sort these two positions out and we'll be fine.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

 

[The Crab]

An excellent goalkeeper for us, only Alan Kelly has been better in the time I have supported us. He's still playing for Maltby Main. One of two players I regret booing in the heat of the moment (when he was playing for QPR at the Lane, looking back he made the right decision professionally to leave a sinking ship). Brian Deane is the second player I regret booing, when he scored in the Kop end for Leeds.
Happy 40th Paddy, just keep off the cough medicine!

Personally think Tracey was as good, with Kelly just top of the pile based on my time watching. All three very good keepers though.

 

[The Crab]

I hope the prick gets his other eyebrow bitten off...for his birthday.

It's a service Vern provides...................

 

[SB_90]

appartantly if you have got anything nice to see, then don't say anything at all. so

 

[Pinchy]

I remember Paddy Kenny rather differently:



Not in the same class as Alan Kelly. Nowhere near.

 

[I should coco]

It's a service Vern provides...................

That's more like it!

The old The Crab alive and well and planning a phoenix like rise from the ashes for Crab Inc, now that the dodgy insolvency is over and the creditors have been legally swindled.

 

[The Crab]

That's more like it!

The old The Crab alive and well and planning a phoenix like rise from the ashes for Crab Inc, now that the dodgy insolvency is over and the creditors have been legally swindled.

Often down, never quite out

 

[JackTheBlade]

Paddy Kenny can get in the bin, along with Neil Warnock. No class, the pair of them.

The OP praising Paddy's quick thinking 'leaving a sinking ship' is a bit of a head scratcher for me, after all we'd been through with him as a club. If I lost my job and my wife left me.. then I bumped into her a few years later and gave it the 'fair dos, you were clever to leave a sinking ship.. I was absolutely on my arse for years after that, to be fair'.. I don't understand why some football fans are so keen to be seen as impartial and 'fair enough' about everything. 'Happy Birthday mate'. WTF.. the d*ckhead left us when we needed him the most! Neither of us know him personally - the least you can do is bear a decent footballing grudge

 

[I should coco]

the least you can do is bear a decent footballing grudge

Children - pay attention!

Today's sage football supporter's tip of the day is writtten above. Sadly you can only 'like it' once.

 

[WigglyBlade]

An excellent goalkeeper for us, only Alan Kelly has been better in the time I have supported us. He's still playing for Maltby Main. One of two players I regret booing in the heat of the moment (when he was playing for QPR at the Lane, looking back he made the right decision professionally to leave a sinking ship). Brian Deane is the second player I regret booing, when he scored in the Kop end for Leeds.
Happy 40th Paddy, just keep off the cough medicine!

It might be his birthday but comparing him to Tracey or Kelly is going a bit far! He wasn’t in the same league as either of those two.

He was decent when he first broke into the side but he was never the same after he got injured (against palace I think). After that he used to crap himself every time he came off his line and flap at a lot of crosses.

Plus how he can ever be considered a ‘Blades legend’ after getting paid a full season for his drugs ban and then jumping ship at the first opportunity is beyond me.

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

I always view him as someone who bit the hand that fed him.

 

[coaxingstar71]

It always baffles me how even in the modern football culture, a lot of fans still feel that players should be loyal or 'owe' the club in some way. In Paddy's case, he was banned but still under contract so the club were obligated to keep him, unless of course they sacked him which would probably have meant paying up his contract. Ched for example, was out of contract so the club simply released him at the end of that season (why wouldn't they). Shortly after the end of the ban, the club accepted a substantial offer from QPR for Paddy and he and more importantly, the club, accepted - so I don't see the problem. He's not a 'blade' as far as I know, he's from Halifax so it's not like he was playing for the club he supported as a kid. We don't know what was going on behind the scenes at the time.

Looking at the cases of Currie and Deane. Currie still claims he never wanted to leave but was literally driven to Leeds by then General Manager, John Harris and told to sign for them as the club needed the money. Although Deane admitted he supported Leeds as a boy, claims he didn't actually ask to leave and would have been happy to stay. We all know that it was Brealey who sold him without Bassett's consent and he could have ended up at Wednesday as they had offered £3.2m and Deane claims, "he couldn't do that to the fans".

A different case is Dane Whitehouse. Apparently Birmingham made an offer that was accepted by the club, but Dane went to see Spackman to check he would be in the managers plans. When he was reassured he would be, he rejected the move and presumably the club didn't push it. However Dane is a boyhood Blades fan so has much more affinity with the club than the others.

Thankfully, as far as I can recall, we haven't had players like Berahino who famously engineered a move himself and proper spat his dummy out about it or Van Hooijdonk at Forest who went on strike because the club wouldn't let him go.

Just check if the club 'looked after' Joe Shaw after he'd played around 650 games for the club and 20 years service.

It seems to me that the only real loyalty is that of the fans who have no choice but to slavishly follow their club through thick and thin.

 

[CarlingBlade]

Paddy was in the away end with the Blades fans at Brentford away recently, so he's either still mates with some Blades fans or he at least in some way still follows / supports the club.

 

[JackTheBlade]

In Paddy's case, he was banned but still under contract so the club were obligated to keep him, unless of course they sacked him which would probably have meant paying up his contract.

It was gross misconduct - the club were within legal rights to sack him. Warnock raided his old club because he knew he could get him on the cheap - ended up paying 750k for Kenny, one of our key players. He went with Uncle Neil The Blade after United had stood by him - what a f*cking knob.

All-too-familiar, the refrain 'yeah but football is just business isn't it.. I would go to a different company if I could get more money over there..etc' but there's a balance. And football isn't just business. It's not like these lads are installing boilers.. Call me deluded but I can't go along with this idea of footballers as pure mercenaries, chasing the money. There's heart in what they do.

Warnock, Kenny, that knob head Kevin MacDonald - no time for them.

 

[coaxingstar71]

It was gross misconduct - the club were within legal rights to sack him. Warnock raided his old club because he knew he could get him on the cheap - ended up paying 750k for Kenny, one of our key players. He went with Uncle Neil The Blade after United had stood by him - what a f*cking knob.

All-too-familiar, the refrain 'yeah but football is just business isn't it.. I would go to a different company if I could get more money over there..etc' but there's a balance. And football isn't just business. It's not like these lads are installing boilers.. Call me deluded but I can't go along with this idea of footballers as pure mercenaries, chasing the money. There's heart in what they do.

Warnock, Kenny, that knob head Kevin MacDonald - no time for them.

They could have sacked him, I said that. I'm pretty sure we would have had to pay up his contract too. It's the clubs fault they only accepted £750k.

I'm sorry but I'm afraid it is business and a harsh one at that. Loyalty is a two-way street though. Most footballers get a one or maybe two year contract these days and if they are deemed surplus to requirements at the end of it, well it's thank you and goodbye. You can't expect footballers to be totally loyal to a club when that club would more than likely sell them if the money was right or let them go if they get injured or can't cut it.

Do you think that when Billy's contract ends and he's 33 and can't get in the team that the club will give him another contract or a job on the coaching staff because he's 'Billy Blade'? No, he'll be gone.

Despite what anyone thinks about 'Uncle Neil', the fact remains he was sacked following our relegation, after McCabe had virtually promised him a new contract, so again, not sure how he 'owes' us - other than stuffing up our chances of staying in the Premier League of course with his lack of tactical nous.

Kevin MacDonald - was it his fault the club left in a paltry release clause in his contract?

See, it's aaaalllllllll business pal.

 

[hazzasufc_]

Judas cunt

 

[cahill]

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Paddy !!!! WTF

Dat what cough mixture does ?

 

[CrookesBlade]

Some grudges I really can't be arsed to bear and Paddy Kenny is one of them. I've always thought there was more to his departure than him being a 'judas cunt' but that is merely conjecture.

First choice number one for 7 years or so, full international and was a key part of the promotion side in 06. Not as good as Kelly or Tracey (a high bar to clear) but a good keeper nonetheless and got us out of the shit plenty of times. Still lives locally and attends games.