Mark Kennedy

**pineapple stu** · 09/12/2018, 11:29 AM

This book's next in my reading pile -

Don't know if it's any good - it's more a random collection of stuff about CM rather than a book as such - but it does feature interviews with the likes of Tonton Zola Moukoko and even Tó Madeira FC. Should be a nostalgia hit if nothing else!

**tetsujin1979** · 09/12/2018, 3:28 PM

I heard the author being interviewed on Phantom FM one time - he had to pause the game to take the interview!

**peadar1987** · 09/12/2018, 6:31 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

One of the most Championship-Managery appointments I've seen in a long while.

One of my favourite ones Championship Manager threw up recently (yes, I'm still playing 01-02, what of it?!)

**pineapple stu** · 09/12/2018, 6:34 PM

September 2032?! Bloody heck.

I think this calls for a general CM thread actually

**peadar1987** · 09/12/2018, 6:46 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

September 2032?! Bloody heck.

I think this calls for a general CM thread actually

I did use a patch which started you in the 2017/18 season, but yeah, still...

**IsMiseSean** · 10/12/2018, 11:41 AM

I've recently started playing it again. How did you get the background images?

**peadar1987** · 10/12/2018, 7:44 PM

Originally Posted by IsMiseSean

I've recently started playing it again. How did you get the background images?

You can download them (and a load of other cool stuff) from champman0102.co.uk

**Fixer82** · 12/12/2018, 7:37 AM

Kennedy never watches Ireland matches and has no interest in the Irish team, I remember him saying in an interview with (I think it was) Kilbane.

That’s a big black mark against him for me

**jbyrne** · 12/12/2018, 8:00 AM

Originally Posted by Fixer82

Kennedy never watches Ireland matches and has no interest in the Irish team, I remember him saying in an interview with (I think it was) Kilbane.

That’s a big black mark against him for me

duffer said the same but i never believed that a lad who travelled to Ireland games as an injured player would lose interest like that

**pineapple stu** · 12/12/2018, 11:48 AM

I suppose given he was effectively banned from the team for the last ten years of his career, some resentment could be expected.

**paul_oshea** · 12/12/2018, 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by jbyrne

duffer said the same but i never believed that a lad who travelled to Ireland games as an injured player would lose interest like that

Probably doing it more for his mates than for Ireland.

**Fixer82** · 13/12/2018, 2:18 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

I suppose given he was effectively banned from the team for the last ten years of his career, some resentment could be expected.

He was in the World Cup 2002 squad but had to pull out through injury. Apparently was in tears after the charity game against Sunderland (in which he scored).

**Fixer82** · 13/12/2018, 2:20 PM

Found this recently and watched most of the game.

1st and 2nd halves of Ireland V Yugoslavia, 1999.
We played some lovely football back then. At one point, Alan Kelly catches the ball and immediately throws it to Stephen Carr at RB and we are on the attack.
Don’t think we’ve done that for about 15 years.

https://youtu.be/vpvbMZxMBz0

https://youtu.be/Xz2urNZq9io

**tetsujin1979** · 18/01/2020, 8:32 AM

Appointed head coach at Macclesfield: https://www.mtfc.co.uk/news/2020/jan...ew-head-coach/
Doesn't look like they have a manager, so I guess he's manager in all but name?

**dynamo kerry** · 18/01/2020, 10:34 PM

Lost the first game in charge 2-1 away to a Colchester side managed by John Mcgreal. Probably the most 1990s thing you'll read today. .

**Fixer82** · 20/01/2020, 8:54 PM

Remember listening to a podcast with him and (I think) Kevin Kilbane where he said he'd no interest in the Irish national team. Wouldn't watch them in a big match even. Came across as a bit bitter. Think he felt he deserved more from McCarhty and he was scapegoat a bit after him and Babb were sent home before the Holland game.
He failed to mention he got back in the team and was offered a place in the 2002 world cup squad but pulled out due to injury.
Babb made his way back into the team as well.

**seanfhear** · 20/01/2020, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by Fixer82

Remember listening to a podcast with him and (I think) Kevin Kilbane where he said he'd no interest in the Irish national team. Wouldn't watch them in a big match even. Came across as a bit bitter. Think he felt he deserved more from McCarhty and he was scapegoat a bit after him and Babb were sent home before the Holland game.
He failed to mention he got back in the team and was offered a place in the 2002 world cup squad but pulled out due to injury.
Babb made his way back into the team as well.

Kennedy had a bad attitude as a player . I wonder how that works when such a player goes into management .

**dynamo kerry** · 21/01/2020, 8:24 AM

Originally Posted by seanfhear

Kennedy had a bad attitude as a player . I wonder how that works when such a player goes into management .

He persisted with playing and made a name for himself at city and wolves in their recovery. I never heard he had an especially bad attitude as a pro .. at the time dancing drunk on cars in Harcourt st was par for the course (have you ever heard Graham stacks stories...?). Slightly old fashioned maybe at that point but he was out of millwall, exposed to ruddock at Liverpool.. what do you expect like..

. his application in the latter half of his career suggests he got what he could out of it. I think he just wasnt as good as duff or as effective as kilbane. Killer player a lot of games at the top level.. easy to forget...
Kennedy could be an excellent lower league coach

**ifk101** · 21/01/2020, 8:51 AM

There was a massive buzz around Kennedy when he first come onto the scene. Remember taking a day off school to watch him play a U21 international against England in Dalymount. :-) And remember us losing badly out in Vienna but Kennedy having the beating of his man and putting in dangerous balls. Never really got his career going from its early start.

**Yard of Pace** · 21/01/2020, 1:46 PM

Originally Posted by dynamo kerry

He persisted with playing and made a name for himself at city and wolves in their recovery. I never heard he had an especially bad attitude as a pro .. at the time dancing drunk on cars in Harcourt st was par for the course (have you ever heard Graham stacks stories...?). Slightly old fashioned maybe at that point but he was out of millwall, exposed to ruddock at Liverpool.. what do you expect like..

. his application in the latter half of his career suggests he got what he could out of it. I think he just wasnt as good as duff or as effective as kilbane. Killer player a lot of games at the top level.. easy to forget...
Kennedy could be an excellent lower league coach

I remember an Irish Times journalist, who I shall not name( out of respect for those hurt by his actions) relating a tale of an Irish player setting fire to a handful of the local currency in an ex-Communist country in front of a bunch of locals, for the craic (am absolutely disgraceful act).....anyone remember the story and know who it was, allegedly, or whatever?