Joe Royle is contemplating his return to the game, four months shy of his 70th birthday.
‘People say you must be mad going back in at 69 — I have wondered that!’
Last month, the Everton great became a director at Wigan Athletic after a Chinese takeover brokered by his son Darren, who is now the Championship club’s chairman. ‘My boss,’ he says with a smile.
The decision was a simple one. ‘I signed my first pro contract as an apprentice at 14,’ Royle explains in the kitchen of his smart Ormskirk home.