Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock admits he's considered walking away from the game over the Emiliano Sala tragedy.

Devastated Warnock, 70, even admitted he wished he never had to manage another game in his career after describing it as the “most difficult week in my career by an absolute mile."

Cardiff boss Warnock also revealed at an emotionally charged press conference that he has flown with the same pilot, David Ibbotson, who is also missing after the plane disappeared near the Channel Islands last week.

When asked whether he had thought about quitting as a football manager, Warnock said: “I think probably 24 hours a day in the last week, yeah. It would be true to say, even as I sit here now.

“In an ideal world I don't think I'd like another game at all. That's how I feel at the minute. We have done the best we can in the circumstances. I don't feel personally that I'm right at the moment.

“I know people say 'life goes on' but we've had ten days, it's not like we could have played three days later, we definitely couldn't have played on Saturday. I think we have just got to get on now. It is a football club.

"But there's more important things, isn't there? You look at your own family, and around, and it's why you've got to enjoy every moment.

"I know I look shattered. I am tired. I know my age is not helping me. But I don't think it's down to my age. It almost feels cruel to me that everything that happened, the Leicester thing was such a tragedy, then this on top of that."