Kenny Shiels an "outrageous fabrication" on turning against him. He since he has no regret accusing Dallas, insisting it was a clear conscience. Once again, Shiels received a four-game ban after being found guilty of two charges over comment about Andrew Dallas. In March 2013, Shiels signed a returning striker, Kris Boyd, whose team [Kilmarnock] which he started his career with, on a free transfer. At the end of the 2012–13 season, with the club finished ninth place, endured their worst home record in more than 30 years, Shiels future at Kilmarnock was in doubt after making comment about Celtic in a
Stephen Kenny (footballer) CIS Cup and several humiliating defeats in the league left Dunfermline significantly behind the leading teams in the First Division and cost him his job, in spite of a run to the lower-league Scottish Challenge Cup Final. After one year in charge, on 4 December 2007, Kenny was sacked as Dunfermline Athletic manager. Striker Jim McIntyre – injured for much of Kenny's reign – took charge as caretaker of the club. Following his departure from Dunfermline Athletic and the sacking of Derry City manager John Robertson, Kenny was strongly linked with a return to the League of Ireland club. In