The former Leeds and Sheffield United keeper’s remarkably frank autobiography details fist fights, infidelity and a drugs-related ban
‘That was an absolute bullshit story,” says Paddy Kenny as he recalls reports from 2006 that claimed he had his eyebrow bitten off by a friend in a fight outside a Halifax curry house.
Readers were given the impression that blood had been spilled because the friend had just confessed to starting an affair with Kenny’s then-wife while the keeper was on international duty with the Republic of
Ireland. “It was nothing to do with that,” he says. “It was just a fight over who was to pay for the curry.”