Neil Warnock's Cardiff City stories: Signing a deal on a serviette, star's reaction to joining and being just a phone call away

While managers at the top and bottom of the Championship readied for a nervy final day of the season on Saturday, with play-off spots and relegation on the line, Neil Warnock was having a very different kind of experience.

"We want on the Pullman from Liskeard right out to Oxford, had a champagne breakfast, stopped for two hours at Oxford and had a five-course meal on the way back," he tells WalesOnline. "That day, I just kept thinking of all the managers in the Championship, the final day of the season! Relegation, promotion, did I miss it? No! I didn't miss that final day!"

There have been very few final days he has missed over the last 55 years as player and manager, but, at 73, he has finally called it a day.

Since he left Middlesbrough in October, he has spent his days cutting the grass, feeding the chickens, unloading boxes which have remained closed for 12 years and stocking local charity shops down in Cornwall.

His daughter, Amy, is now a radiotherapist down at a hospital in Cornwall, while his son, William, once in Cardiff City's academy, has turned his attention to golf and wants to make a career for himself in that sport.

The Warnock family are getting far more time with Neil and the man himself is enjoying it. But after so long in the game, it's only natural he has something on which to focus his mind. As such, he has organised two nights of his show in September, Are You With Me? , one in Sheffield and one in Cardiff, to retell tales of his illustrious time in the game.

Agreeing to do that, he says, has brought memories flooding back to him. He has many fond memories of his time at Cardiff, of course, he counts what he did with the Bluebirds as his greatest achievement in the game, but one moment in