NEIL Warnock has insisted he will not die on the job after agreeing to extend his stay at Middlesbrough for another season.
The Teessiders announced this week that the 72-year-old will remain at the helm for the 2021-22 campaign after being parachuted into the Riverside Stadium in a firefighting role in June last year.
Warnock has repeatedly shelved plans to retire – he had planned to call it a day at 55 – but has promised his wife Sharon that he will eventually hang up his tracksuit.
He said: “The problem we’ve got is Sharon has had illnesses and I’m 72, and when you read the news nowaday...