McKenzie Hoping To Play Against Former Team Mates

Last updated : 06 August 2008 By Covsupport News Service
Coventry City forward Leon McKenzie is looking forward to being available to face his former club Norwich City.

McKenzie has not played against Norwich since his move due to a clause stopping him from playing and an injury which keep him out from last December.

However, a good pre-season has put the Croydon lad back in to the first team frame.

"It will be my first time being available to play against them and it will be a bit weird to be honest," said McKenzie to the Norwich Evening News. "I'm looking forward to it. I don't know if I'll be playing yet, so we'll see but I'm feeling as well as can be. I got through pre-season and I'm just trying to work hard and hopefully I'll have a good one this year."

Unlike Andy Marshall, who normally gets abuse from the Norwich support, McKenzie feels that he will not get a bad reception from the Norwich support at the Arena on Saturday.

"Have you heard I will?" joked the likeable McKenzie, who was shaking hands with some of the City support and thanking them for coming after the Kilmarnock game last Saturday.

"The club was great and they gave me an amazing time in the Premiership. No one can say to me I left because of another £10,000 a week because I'm not on much more here than I was at Norwich. It wasn't to do with money. It was that, at the time, I needed to move.

"The fans know what I'm about and deep down I hope they see I had some personal problems off the field. Then there was a situation with the manager at the time and it became one of those where where I had to move on.

"But I had some great times at Norwich. Maybe not so much at the end; that was mixed, but not all the people understood it and you can't please everyone."

For Leon McKenzie, this could be his final year at City and he added: "I don't really look at it like that. I'm playing to do what it takes and everything else will look after itself. 

"It's just about me putting a run of games together. This is the last year of my contract so we will see what happens. I just want to play some games and hopefully get a few goals."