“I am intense to work alongside,” admits Mick Kennedy, the manager plotting East Kilbride’s rise from the lower reaches of Scottish football to the SPFL Championship. Ideally, within three years.
“My assistant Simon Ferry tells me that, alongside Paolo Di Canio, I’m probably the most intense guy he has ever worked with,” he tells Herald Sport. “I’m just so, so, so driven. I mean, like, properly intense. But I think if you want to be successful, that’s just how you need to be.”