A Wanderer Returns

I felt like I'd been waiting ten years to track down Hugh McIlmoyle, so it hardly seemed to matter that I was ten minutes late pulling on to his drive in a village that might have been called Middle Of Nowhere. But this legend of Cumbrian football greeted me by saying he had been asked by Border TV to do a live interview into that teatime's news programme from outside Carlisle United's Brunton Park ground. Bang goes another ten minutes.

An Eye-Opening Trend

Much has been said, with Paul Ince’s return to the Premier League, about how many of Sir Alex Ferguson’s former Manchester United stalwarts have followed him into management. Steve Bruce, Roy Keane and Mark Hughes already occupied top-flight hot seats while, from the Aberdeen side he led during his pre-knighthood days to the greatest era in their history, Gordon Strachan, Alex McLeish and Mark McGhee have embarked on similar journeys.