Quote of the day

"It was with some trepidation that I went to interview the 6ft 4in striker at a Newcastle hotel yesterday after a quick trawl through his recent newspaper cuttings. But it is my pleasure to report that I emerged unscathed from our meeting and I left convinced that big Andy seems to be learning the error of his ways."

The Mirror's Brian McNally reports back from a rendez-vous with Rocky. What with McNally being the same hack who referred to our striker's training ground disagreement with Steven Taylor as a "cowardly assault", you have to wonder how scathed he'd have been if Rocky could read...