Warnock No Sympathy For Paddy Kenny’s Missing Eyebrow
November 17th, 2006 by Alan HylandsI have a funy feeling that most of today’s overly pampered Premiership superstars would be expecting an arm around the shoulder and some tender loving care from their manager if they had suffered the indignity of having their eyebrow bitten off in a brawl while out on the town but then Neil Warnock is no ordinary Premiership manager and, as is to be expected, he has been less than supportive of Paddy Kenny’s plight.
The Republic of Ireland goalkeeper had been on a night out in Halifax against Warnock’s wishes and finished the evening in the Indian curry house by getting involved in a brawl and having his eyebrow reportedly bitten off, much to his manager’s obvious annoyance.
Warnock says of the incident:
“He’s let himself down and I think he’s more embarrassed about it than anything else. This should have been avoided.
“The lads have got to learn that wherever you are when you’re a Premiership footballer, you’re news.”
“I’ve told Paddy in the past he shouldn’t be going out in Halifax.
“All of a sudden he’s back out and it isn’t a coincidence. He’s let himself down.
“He won’t be going out in Halifax again. He knows he’s let me down, but things happen with young lads like that.”
Not exactly the arm around the shoulder treatment from Warnock but he has been quick to defend his players from allegations of bad discipline instead blaming the problems some of them have faced this season on their lack of brains rather than lack of discipline.
After the Claude Davis-Ade Akinbiyi razorblade confrontation you would have thought that the Baldes would have had enough of violence but obviously not. The only thing the Sheffield United players can be sure of is that Neil Warnock won’t keep his mouth shut and blindly defend them like some of his managerial rivals and I think that’s to his eternal credit.
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