Forgotten Irish Players

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 Green Cockade wrote:

Kenny McEvoy was another Spurs starlet, a Gareth Bale lookalike of whom big things were once expected. Still only 27 and now playing for South Normanton Athletic.

McEvoy got married at about 21 or 22 years of age and that was right about the time he started getting ideas of himself. He more or less demanded first team football and tried to play hard ball with Spurs. They told him to get lost so his contract was “mutually terminated”.

Played League 1 and 2 before going to Waterford United for a season and he didn’t bother his arse when he was there. Went back to England and was/is working a normal job.

McEvoy played his underage football with my cousin all the way up through the schoolboy teams with him. He was a talented player but thought he was a world beater and expected first team football when he was miles short of what was required. Mentally he wasn’t strong enough and that was what held him back. Well, that and his wife.

Edited by bundy - 27 Dec 2021 at 12:19am