....BUT IT WENT PEARSHAPED TODAY!

Not quite so slick was Five Live's interview with Mick McCarthy on this morning's show. Asked by Shelagh Fogarty to comment on Rafa Benitez' problems ahead of the Lyon match, big Mick snapped: "I was asked to come on to talk about Lyon, not Rafa Benitez. So I'll swerve that one." Some swerve. The next sound we heard was the phone being put down.