‘I Didn’t Know What The Job Entailed’ – Becoming The Man In The Kit Room

Paul ‘Macca’ McAndrew, the latest guest on Leicester's The Place, has spent the last 30 years as the Club’s Kit Manager, and in that time has collected a wealth of stories throughout different points in our history.

2025-06-02T15:00+01:00

by Matthew Temple

Published

02 Jun, 2025

‘I Didn’t Know What The Job Entailed’ – Becoming The Man In The Kit Room

Paul ‘Macca’ McAndrew, the latest guest on Leicester's The Place, has spent the last 30 years as the Club’s Kit Manager, and in that time has collected a wealth of stories throughout different points in our history.

Matthew Temple

2025-06-02T15:00+01:00

‘I Didn’t Know What The Job Entailed’ – Becoming The Man In The Kit Room

Paul ‘Macca’ McAndrew, the latest guest on Leicester's The Place, has spent the last 30 years as the Club’s Kit Manager, and in that time has collected a wealth of stories throughout different points in our history.

Matthew Temple

2025-06-02T15:00+01:00

‘I Didn’t Know What The Job Entailed’ – Becoming The Man In The Kit Room

Paul ‘Macca’ McAndrew, the latest guest on Leicester's The Place, has spent the last 30 years as the Club’s Kit Manager, and in that time has collected a wealth of stories throughout different points in our history.

Matthew Temple

2025-06-02T15:00+01:00

‘I Didn’t Know What The Job Entailed’ – Becoming The Man In The Kit Room

Paul ‘Macca’ McAndrew, the latest guest on Leicester's The Place, has spent the last 30 years as the Club’s Kit Manager, and in that time has collected a wealth of stories throughout different points in our history.

Matthew Temple

2025-06-02T15:00+01:00

Paul ‘Macca’ McAndrew featured on the latest episode of Leicester’s The Place podcast
He discussed his journey from the coach driver to Kit Manager
He delves into stories about his appointment, the great escape and an unforgettable Premier League winning season

While Leicester City has gone through different periods of highs and lows, one man to have been part of the First Team staff for over three decades is Macca.

In the latest episode of the Leicester’s The Place podcast, Gerry Taggart and Matt Elliott sat down with the man who has seen it all, within the walls of the stadium and two training grounds.

A career that has filled him with such joy and pride, it wasn’t something that ever looked on the cards, when he was driving the team coach for two years prior.

Macca has operated in the kit room for nearly 30 years.

“June 1996, I became the kitman,” McAndrew opened with in Seagrave. “I was the coach driver for two years before that – just over 30 years I’ve been with the Club now.

“The kitman at the time told me he was going to leave, and I jokingly at the time told him to let me know and I would apply for the job, thinking nothing more of it.

“That summer after we got promoted; I was working on EURO 1996 and I got a call from him saying ‘thanks for everything, just to let you know I’ve put your name forward.’

“Next thing I know, I’m being called up telling me I’ve got the job. I didn’t have a clue at the time what the job entailed.”

Macca went on to talk about the ‘great escape’ 2014/15 season in which Nigel Pearson guided us to a 14th placed finish, having been marooned at the foot of the table for so long.

“That great escape was a great season in the end,” he continued. “We were playing decent football at times but were taking those sucker punches.

Speaking on the character during the great escape season.

“I remember [Arsene] Wenger saying, when we were about seven or eight points adrift, that he couldn’t believe how we were where we were.

“After that, a light switch went on and we went on a roll which we built on in the following season.”

What followed was a season no Leicester fan will ever forget, and for someone in the dressing room, at the training ground and part of every matchday experience, it will always be the highlight, apart maybe from an awkward encounter with Eden Hazard.

“It was just about enjoying it,” Macca stated. “We started off so well when Claudio [Ranieri] came in, and it just kept on going and going.

“I had nothing in my head that I thought we were going to win the league but after the Palace game I was thinking, ‘don’t blow it now’.

“But the lads never looked nervous, they were confident, whereas I was always so nervous for every game after that.

Sharing stories on a title-winning campaign.

“I didn’t want to go out to watch the Chelsea vs. Spurs game, and when it was 2-0 at half-time, I was so angry I wanted to go home – it ended up being one of the best nights of my life.

“When we won the league, it was party central for two weeks and then we played Chelsea on the last game of the season.

“I’ve come out of the dressing room for the warm-ups and Hazard is stood outside the dressing room, and I just walked up to him and gave him a big hug.

“He didn’t have a clue who I was, and started pushing me away, so I just said thank you and he said ‘okay’. I walked off thinking why did I just do that?!”

The full and in-depth podcast with many more countless memories can be found on our official YouTube channel and Foxes Hub.

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