PADDY MCNAIR MIDDLESBROUGH DEFENDER

DETERMINED: Middlesbrough’s Paddy McNair, right, battles for the ball with Preston’s Emil Riis Jakobsen and, Inset, Boro boss Neil Warnock
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By Chris Dunlavy
NEIL Warnock has worked alongside thousands of players during 41 eventful years at the managerial coalface. Speaking last month, though, the Middlesbrough boss described Paddy Mc- Nair as the best of the bunch. “As a player, as a pro, as a person, I’ve never had a better specimen,” he told the Northern Echo, shortly befor...