When exactly did I want to fight our players?
On occasion players and club officials have wanted to fight me, but never vice versa.
I ended up on fairly excellent terms with JC, for what it's worth.
If you're referring to the incident where Danny Graham phoned me and asked me to drop everything on a Sunday evening and travel 160 miles to fight him, that was pretty hilarious to be honest. He crumbled under my criticism and was on the verge of tears, only managing to reply with "you're a shithouse, you're a shithouse" before passing the phone to another incoherent drunken geordie. The season was finished and my criticism of him valid and to the bone.
I'd be happy to tell any player precisely what I think of them if they're game enough to telephone me, but in the ground while they're on the pitch? Never.