‘That’s like being asked would I sooner be burnt or scalded’

Mick McCarthy arches his eyebrows the way he does when a question comes from a bit out of left-field.

‘That’s like being asked would I sooner be burnt or scalded’

Mick McCarthy arches his eyebrows the way he does when a question comes from a bit out of left-field.

“That’s like being asked would I sooner be burnt or scalded,” he suggests, wisely avoiding the temptation to extract more mileage from the one about the rock and the hard place. (We’ll take care of that, thanks very much).

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