AFTER a late night in a New York jazz bar, an early morning flight back to Heathrow and a journey north in the passenger seat of Ronnie Jepson's car, Neil Warnock was back - again.
This time it's at Huddersfield - again.
And once again, he's coming in to rescue a side in dire need of some inspiration.
The former Middlesbrough boss insisted he'd retired last year but even he won't have believed it. Indeed, he suggested as much when he appeared at Middlesbrough's Town Hall on his Are You With Me tour.
And so, when Huddersfield rang, there was only ever going to be one answer - once wife Sharon had given him the green light.
"As soon as this came up Sharon said ‘why don’t you go and help them? It’s only until May?’ I thought ‘Bloody hell, that’s not like you!’," laughed Warnock in his unveiling.
“There’s no pictures of me here at the training ground. There’s pictures up of everyone else. If I keep them up there’ll be a statue of me won’t there!”
"You never lose it. I know the dinosaur thing but it's very difficult to replicate what you've had all them years and I like to think the clubs I've been at I've left in a better place. I want to do that, and I want to enjoy myself. 74 years old and I feel like a little kid. I'm looking forward to the games.
"I've always thought there's a job for me somewhere, maybe one or two days a week, but people don't seem to use experience anymore, they think they can do it themselves.
"I just want to enjoy myself. I'll give it my best and hopefully help them decide what they're going to do and help stabilise the club really."
Management, he admitted, is his addiction. So where would it stand in his list of achievements if Warnock keeps Huddersfield, currently off the bottom of the table on goal difference, in the Championship?
"People ask me my favourite club and best memory and it's hard really," he said.
"I've got eight promotions but keeping Rotherham up was as big a job as any. Taking Scarborough up, 50/1 outsiders. You just hope the fans remember. All I can do is my best and I know the fans will be with me. I want to get them buzzing.
"I don't want to blow my own trumpet but I don't think they could have gone anywhere else. I think it just needed calming down here."
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Warnock is as straight to the point as ever.
What are Huddersfield's issues?
"Not winning enough games," he says.
Can he keep them up?
"I don't really think about things like that. If they get relegated I won't be blamed, will I? It's a piece of cake really."
He starts with a home game against Birmingham on Saturday. There's an April Fools Day game against former side Boro at the John Smith's Stadium to look forward to. It's a tough looking run for Warnock and Town.
“You look at the fixtures and you’d have to be a bloody idiot to come here, but that’s what I am thankfully," he says.
“Playing the likes of Middlesbrough, Sheffield United, they’re great games.
“I want the players to give 100% in training and go home knowing they couldn’t have given more, and I want the fans to know they’re doing that. I think the fans will get behind me.”
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