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MY TOP THREE

by
The LeaguePaper Team
11 October 2026

PAUL McKenna made over 450 appearances for Preston and also played for Nottingham Forest and Hull during a 17-year career that saw the combative midfielder spend 13 consecutive seasons in the Championship. Now 48 and working in the construction trade, McKenna talks to Chris Dunlavy about the three best players he ever shared a pitch with:
Ricardo Fuller – Preston

We signed Ricardo from a club in Jamaica. Our manager, Craig Brown, had seen him playing on loan at Hearts in Scotland but none of us had ever heard of him.
He turned up and didn’t look anything like a footba...

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