An EFL star has taken aim at ‘f***ing wrong ens’ in an extraordinary message after confirming his departure from his club, despite finishing as their top scorer this season.
Harry McKirdy scored eight goals for Crawley Town in League Two, with the club staying up on the final day of the season by drawing 0-0 with Salford City.
Crawley finished one point above the drop zone in 22nd place, just avoiding suffering back-to-back relegations.
McKirdy has since announced his departure from the club on Instagram, with the 29-year-old taking a swipe at individuals at the club.
‘Met some good people, met some f***ing wrong ens, that’s football,’ McKirdy wrote.
‘Onto the next. Up the f***ing Chels.’
Harry McKirdy has taken a swipe at ‘some f***ing wrong ens’ after announcing his departure from Crawley Town
McKirdy’s statement comes prior to Crawley announcing their retained player list for next season, with the forward choosing to announce his own exit at the end of his contract.
The 29-year-old signed for Crawley on a one-year deal last summer, with the Red Devils being the eighth EFL side he has represented during his career.
It is unclear who McKirdy’s comments were directed at.
McKirdy had insisted at the end of the season that he would ‘love to be here’ when asked about his future at Crawley.
He had admitted in an interview with the BBC that it was ‘strange’ to have been celebrating finishing 22nd in League Two, as he discussed the ‘pure relief’ of clinching survival.
McKirdy had made the point of saying he was ‘proud’ and ‘forever grateful’ to his team-mates after missing their final two matches with injury.
The forward had also defended team-mates who had been left in a ‘bomb squad’ under their former manager Scott Lindsey, who was sacked in March and replaced by Colin Kazim-Richards.
Speaking after the final game, McKirdy said: ‘I’ve never felt like that watching a game of football. I think the only time, I was in Porto to watch Chelsea in the Champions League final and that’s the only time I’ve ever felt like that watching a game of football and got a bit emotional after the game.’
McKirdy, left, was Crawley’s top scorer in League Two with eight goals this season as the club narrowly avoided relegation on the final day
‘Some of the boys you see at the end, Lofty and Louis Watson, everyone was a credit to themselves. But especially them boys, they’ve had it tough since January.
‘I’ve been in their situation and look, managers make decisions. We probably wasn’t good enough first half of the season. But I’ve been in the situation them boys have been in and Watson is a lot younger than me and I’ve been in this situation at his age.
‘And if I was called upon like he was, I wouldn’t have been ready because I would have been sulking probably. I spoke to him after, credit to himself.
‘The way the boys have handled not being involved and in the bomb squad.
‘I think it’s the first bomb squad in history that’s been made and I’ve not been put in it so they have reacted a lot better than I would have and they’re a credit to themselves but I didn’t do anything today.’
Despite finishing as Crawley’s top scorer, McKirdy missed 14 of their 46 league matches through injury and suspension.
The forward completed the full 90 minutes just 10 times during the league season.
