You will never find any splinters in Tim Sherwood's backside, because this is not a man for sitting on the fence.
And that is in spite of Sir Alex Ferguson's advice to him about choosing his words carefully after becoming Tottenham boss in 2013.
'I spoke to him,' Sherwood tells Chris Sutton, his former Norwich and Blackburn team-mate.
'He told me, 'You play two games a week as a manager — one is the press conference and the other is a football match. Sometimes it's just as important to win the conference as it is the match'.