If Roin Atkinson accepts the Nottingham Forest manager's job, he is sure to provide good quotes if nothing else in the coming months. When `Big Ron' left Manchester United in 1986, he quipped: "So what, I've had to swap my Merc for a BMW, I'm down to my last 37 Armani suits and I'm drinking non-vintage champagne."

In January 1989, when he was chucked out of Atletico Madrid, he said: "The lad Gil's (club president) sacking managers for fun." After his departure from Coventry City in November 1996, after he had taken them from 18th in the Premiership to, er, 18th the following year, he said: "Desperate, desperate? Let's put it this way, the Samaritans have stopped taking Coventry's phone calls."

We wait with baited breath for the next wave of bon mots from the man they call Bojangles.