If your back’s to the wall, you’d want AP in your corner

AP McCoy’s announcement that he would be retiring at the end of the season didn’t come as a surprise to me because we are good friends.

He said it to me a good while back that this would be his last year but then, it wasn’t the first time he said that either so while I believed him, I only half-believed him.

One thing you know for sure is that now he has made the decision, he won’t be doing a Fergie or a Jamie Spencer. I would be astounded if he was to do that. He’s never done anything in his life by half, so I can’t see him starting now.