No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets.

I had a nice time over Christmas. I watched EastEnders - blimey, that makes my job look easy!

We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.

It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

Inter have bought the finished article and there's no doubt he can keep improving.

I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.

At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)