PADDY KENNY has revealed Neil Warnock once gave a run-out to a 14-year-old in pre-season – for a bizarre reason.
The legendary manager took his team to Cornwall for pre-season with Kenny part of a side that lined up against Bodmin Town.
And he was joined by a surprising individual – a 14-year-old child Warnock brought into the squad.
Kenny, 45, revealed the teenager was given a cameo because Warnock owed his dad a favour after he decorated his house.
Kenny told the I Had Trials Once podcast: “Warnock used to take us to Cornwall all the time. We were playing a game, we’re all there getting changed before we go out. Warnok’s brought this young kid in about 14-years-old.
“This young kid has come in with his dad and we were like ‘what’s going off here, f***ing hell, why would he be playing?’.
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“Anyway, he tells us, ‘just to let you all know lads, this is so and so and his dad so and so. He’s playing 20 minutes at the end of the game’.
“We were like, eh? Anyway this young kid comes on, plays 20 minutes, pre-season I think it was Bodmin we were playing.
“We found out afterwards the lad’s dad had decorated Warnock’s house, so instead of paying he gave his lad 20 minutes of a pre-season game.”
Warnock ended his retirement to return to management at Huddersfield in February, and steered the Terriers away from the Championship relegation zone last season.
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He signed a one-year deal earlier this summer, much to the delight of fans, and is once again taking his squad to Cornwall for pre-season.
Kenny’s career was intertwined with Warnock with the keeper playing for the 74-year-old at Bury, Sheffield United, QPR, Leeds, and Rotherham.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
