Kenny Clements

{{Short description|English footballer and manager}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=April 2016}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Kenny Clements

| image =

| caption =

| fullname = Kenneth Henry Clements

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|4|9|df=y}}

| birth_place = Middleton, England

| death_date =

| height = 6 ft 1 in{{cite book |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88 |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Dunk |publisher=Queen Anne Press |location=London |date=1987 |page=230 |isbn=978-0-356-14354-5}}

| position = Defender

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Manchester City

| years1 = 1972–1979 | clubs1 = Manchester City | caps1 = 119 | goals1 = 0

| years2 = 1979–1985 | clubs2 = Oldham Athletic | caps2 = 206 | goals2 = 2

| years3 = 1985–1988 | clubs3 = Manchester City | caps3 = 106 | goals3 = 1

| years4 = 1988–1990 | clubs4 = Bury | caps4 = 81 | goals4 = 1

| years5 = 1990 | clubs5 = Limerick | caps5 = 8 | goals5 = 0

| years6 = 1990–1991 | clubs6 = Shrewsbury Town | caps6 = 20 | goals6 = 0

| totalcaps = 540 | totalgoals = 4

| manageryears1 = 1990

| managerclubs1 = Limerick (player-manager)

}}

Kenneth Henry Clements{{cite web |title=Players |url=http://www.mcfcstats.com/ |publisher=Steve Kay |accessdate=20 October 2009}} Note that the url is that of the site's front page; as it is a Flash-based site, a link to the specific page cannot be supplied. (born 9 April 1955 in Middleton, Lancashire) is an English former footballer who played as a defender in the Football League for Manchester City, in two spells, between 1971 and 1979 and between 1985 and 1988, Oldham Athletic, Bury and Shrewsbury Town,{{cite web |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/kennyclements.html |title=Kenny Clements |work=UK A–Z Transfers |publisher=Neil Brown |accessdate=20 October 2009}} and was briefly player-manager of League of Ireland club Limerick.{{cite news |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/manchester_city/s/173/173061_derby_day_memories_kenny_clements.html |title=Derby day memories: Kenny Clements |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |date=7 September 2005 |accessdate=20 October 2009}} He made 282 appearances for Manchester City in all competitions, scoring twice. He was an unused substitute when Manchester City won the 1976 Football League Cup Final.

After retiring from football, Clements opened a driving school in the Oldham area, and resumed his interest in painting.{{cite news |url=http://www.oldhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/531559_artistic_kenny_still_in_the_driving_seat |title=Artistic Kenny still in the driving seat |first=James |last=Ferguson |newspaper=Oldham Advertiser |date=15 August 2007 |accessdate=20 October 2009}} He now works as a chauffeur for Manchester property tycoon Aneel Mussarat at MCR Property Ltd in Rusholme, Manchester, UK.{{Citation needed|date=February 2014}}