Just now, he said "Well it could be that his team-mates asked him to come back as a player, saying "We could do with your help". I was put in that position at Coventry, as manager, where the players asked me to play".
And when he did, he was always our best player by a country mile! Does make me ponder which City players of the day asked him to comeback, though.
Its been obvious for sometime, we need thorn to pull his boots back on.. then lay in front of our goal. the view behind the goal will be shit but the clean sheets is ample compensation.