Neil Warnock will be 70 this year and mourning for men he counts as contemporaries has begun to change him. It is not that age has wearied him. It has most definitely not done that. But it has made him think more about his love for the game he has worked in all his adult life and the message he would like to spread in the time as a manager he has left.
'Cyrille Regis dies, Jimmy Armfield dies,' says Warnock, as he gazes out of the window of his office at the Cardiff City training ground. 'People all around me from my era are dying or dead.