Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson enjoyed his battle with Cardiff City's Neil Warnock for yesterday's 0-0 draw.

Both managers are now over 70 years of age, though Hodgson insists that's the last thing on his mind.

He said, "As managers, we don't regard ourselves as 70-years-old, that's the problem. We put that fact conveniently behind us I suppose because we don't feel it. Watching [Neil] Warnock on the touchline as animated as he is, finding all that energy, he obviously doesn't feel like he's 70 years of age.

"We're both in the same boat, we totally refuse to accept that we are the age we are. And I watched a wonderful documentary on Bob Robson and it brought it home to me that it doesn't matter what age you are, it's about what you bring to the table. Bob Robson was the classic example of that. I'd like to think that Warnock and I are in the same sort of mould."