Neil Warnock has always championed the maxim about age being a case of mind over matter – if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
And as he welcomed 74-year-old Roy Hodgson's return to the dodgems on Watford's fairground, English football's most-promoted manager acclaimed his fellow septuagenarian's enduring taste for adventure.
Warnock was three weeks short of his 73rd birthday when he was sawn off by Middlesbrough in November, and he is not yet resigned to indefinite detention with Homes Under the Hammer and daytime TV's assorted sedatives.
