I'm not sure that was the case at all. Phillips had received an offer as player coach at Wolves which suited him as it was closer to home, meant that he would play every week and would kickstart his career in coaching.

It was Ian Holloway who persuaded him to sign on for another year and I very much doubt that sentiment had anything to do with it as he thought that Kevin Phillips could do a job for us.

If Holloway was sentimental he wouldn't have given the likes of Ramage and Garvan contract extensions and then excluded them from the playing side