He’s had a great career at Preston North End so far, he’s done really well 10 years in. It’s probably more than that if you include his schoolboy and YT years but as a professional for 10 years at one club is a great achievement. He has seen the Club rise from the lower league to being on the doorstep of the Premiership and he has been a great player for the Club over the last few years, I think now he is just coming into his peak.

Definitely, there is so much movement in football these days, there are a lot of agents involved and players can see that they can make a good living by moving around. When you get a player as good as McKenna staying loyal to Preston, I’m sure he’s had offers and heard whispers about moves to other clubs, he fully deserves his game tonight against Everton. He’s a great lad, if you speak to any player that has played with McKenna while they have been here they will say that he is one of the top three players, and that’s true in the time I have been here. He’s good technically, he trains really well, he’s fit and he’s a great lad off the pitch as well, he deserves it more than anyone else I think.

If you actually watch him he wins more headers than anyone else on the pitch, he’s a great athlete, he’s got a great spring, he’s a strong lad and since I have been here he has been one of the top players. I remember playing against him when I was at Luton, he couldn’t really live with me then, so I think he was happy to see my on his side. He’s a great player to play with, he’s got a good football brain, he’s always thinking about the game and he knows how to get the best out of certain situations.

I found it quite surprising in my first three of four years here that he didn’t get the accolades that I thought he should have. I think he has been quite underated for a lot of years, it’s only in the last two years that he has got a bit of press attention from outside of Preston and that people actually realise what a good player he is. All the players and staff that have been here over the years know what he can do but I think he has been underrated by football people away from the Club. If you actually ask people within the game they know what he can do and I’m sure there would be a lot of clubs interested in him if he ever became available. Hopefully we can keep him here at Preston because he is a top player.

He has got a great strike on him, he knows where the goal is and he has got great technique. The thing with Paul is that he wants to help the team so much that he does a lot of defending and sometimes because he is so unselfish and he helps the team he probably doesn’t get into those goalscoring positions like other people do. That’s just down to the type of character that he is, he helps the team and he puts the team first, if he became a bit more selfish and didn’t defend so much he could probably get 10 goals a season every year. He always thinks about the team first and that is what makes him the player that he is.

When David Moyes took over as manager I think it was an upturn in a lot of players’ careers, Paul was one of those players and so was I. David Moyes did really well for the Club when he was here and he did really well for a lot of the players, it’s great to see him bring his team back for this night, for Paul. If you ask Moyesy he will tell you what a great player Paul is as well, it’s going to be a special night for ‘Kenna’ and one that he deserves.

You never know, I’ve done something like seven years now and I’ve got another year on my contract and that would be a great thing to do. But three years is a long time in football, there’s probably only three or four players left from three years ago here, so much can change. It’s a long way away, it would be great for me to get that far but I am not thinking that far ahead to be honest.