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Fullname: Kenneth Miller
aka: Kenny Miller
Born: 23 Dec 1979
Birthplace: Edinburgh
Signed: 1 July 2006
Left: 31 Aug 2007
Position: Striker, Centre-forward
Debut:
Internationals: Scotland
International Caps: 59
International Goals: 16

Trivia

• An ex-Rangers player bought by WGS to bolster our attack! His first goal was ironically against Rangers.....
• After one year, Kenny Miller has left to sign for Derby for £3m!!!! [BBC]
• Rejoined Rangers in 2008!! so from Rangers to Celtic to Rangers (all with teams in between each!!!), scored ironically two goals in his return game against Celtic.
  

Biog

Since Gordon Strachan has taken over at Celtic he hasn’t half surprised the fans with some of his signings, but few if any have been half as surprising as Kenny Miller. For a start Kenny was an ex-Rangers player who was regarded as a failure there, and who then left for England. Not exactly setting the heather on fire in the English Championship either, WGS bought him on the back of his performances for Scotland (which were for him relatively good).

Whatever he came on a free, and the truth is that many didn’t want (inc admittedly myself). Couldn’t see the value in the guy. Nevertheless, as the Celts all sang for Alfie Conn “He used to be a Huns but he’s alright now!”. His record though was poor and he took him a number of goals to get his first, but when he did it was classic as ironically it was against Huns in a League game helping us to win (GIRU em).

The highlight of his Celtic career (if not ever) was likely his goals in the Champions League where somehow he did score 3 goals, with a brace against Benfica at home in a wonderful 3-0 victory and Kenny can take plaudits. After this point we all expected his confidence to rise and his scoring to flow. It didn’t.

His scoring rate was piss poor, and the truth is that the Celtic management and support backed him more than we ever should. Why? It was because there was a belief in the public/press that as an ex-Rangers player that we were turning against him, but that was nonsense from his experience, and he was actually given too much of a chance. WGS favoured him too much though against Riordan who with fewer opportunities scored more in the league. There’s no denying Miller’s work rate, which was phenomenally good, but effort is not enough in football and the end-product from the man was generally poor. The support ended up frustrated and no surprise we were all hoping to see him move on, which can be best illustrated in a game at the end of the season when the support booed the management for taking off Riordan to put Miller on.

The next season started surprisingly for all, with Kenny starting in the first team, but to be fair he started well and got 3 goals in the league. Was he now the man we all wanted? I was never convinced, but the support seemed split over this! Regardless, when the stories came in that clubs were willing to pay £2-3m for him, we all laughed, and laughed even more when he was actually sold for the maximum there of £3m!!!! No disrespect but he wasn’t good enough for that amount, and shows how much silly money is flowing in England.

At the end of the day, as much as you can admire his work effort and heart, he simply wasn’t good enough. In truth, some were sorry to see him go in one sense as we liked him as a person as he controlled himself well on the pitch which is likely why WGS favoured him so much (too much!), however for £3m for the guy it was a no-brainer. The manager even upto a day or two before had said that he wanted Kenny to stay, but who knows.

Post-Celtic

Bit of revenge on his part. Bizarrely he moved from Rangers to Celtic and then back to Rangers, where he had a fairly successful career. Scored twice on his first game v Celtic, and scored 5 goals in total v Celtic. Helped them to league titles as well. Ah well! Still wasn't a great striker and the poor quality of the Celtic defences allowed him scope to score more than he should have. A successful striker in Scottish leagues, very poor outwith but he did the job for Rangers and we suffered as a result (albeit their titles were tainted due to the tax scandal and many fans regard them as void). Not too popular with the Celtic support but not near the low levels of say Maurice Johnstone.

Playing Career

Club				From				To	Fee		League			FA Cup			League cup			Other
Derby				31-08-2007					£ 3,000,000		No appearance data available
Celtic				01-07-2006				31-08-2007	Free		21 (12)		7	2 (2)	1		0 (1)	0		5 (3)	3
Wolves				13-12-2001				01-07-2006	£ 3,000,000		128 (34)		50	10 (2)	5		6 (1)	5		3 (2)	1
Wolves				06-09-2001				08-12-2001	Loan		3 (2)		2	0 (0)	0		0 (0)	0		0 (0)	0
Rangers				27-06-2000				13-12-2001	£ 2,000,000		12 (18)		8	2 (1)	1		1 (0)	1		3 (1)	1
Stenh'semuir				27-11-1998				12-03-1999	Loan		11 (0)		8	2 (0)	2		0 (0)	0		0 (0)	0
Hibernian				22-05-1996				27-06-2000	Signed		29 (16)		12	5 (0)	1		1 (2)	1		0 (0)	0
Hutchison Vale BC				01-08-1995				22-05-1996	Youth		No appearance data available
Totals									£ 8,000,000		204 (82)		87	21 (5)	10		8 (4)	7		11 (6)	5
									goals / game		0.30			0.38			0.58			0.29
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Honours with Celtic

[Indicate any known awards (player of the year, etc)]

Pictures

• Kenny Miller Pics

KDS Honours
MOTM Winners 2006-07
29-Jul-06	Celtic 4 v 1 Killie	SPL
17-Oct-06	Celtic 3 v 0 Benfica	Champions League
MOTM Winners 2007-08
11-Aug-07	Falkirk 1 v 4 Celtic	SPL