‘As Groucho Marx once said, I’ve had a great afternoon, but this wasn’t it.’ With that zinger, three hours in the company of Martin O’Neill are over.
He’s talked Leicester City and replacing Brendan Rodgers; Nottingham Forest and Steve Cooper’s hollow vote of confidence from Evangelos Marinakis, the owner who sacked O’Neill after 19 games in 2019; how if Roy Hodgson and Neil Warnock are still going at 75 and 74 respectively, he is nowhere near retired at 71; why Brian Clough would cut it with Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp if he was managing today.