Steve Evans tended to take the jibes about his weight in good humour. But the advancing years coupled with his expanding waistline made it an issue that he was determined to confront. Four young grandchildren have a way of lending perspective.

"I want to be around when they are 25, 30," Evans tells Sky Sports . "I want to see them have kids. Is that possible? Yeah, it is possible." He has given himself a better chance by losing six-and-a-half stone of that weight in the months since leaving Rotherham.

A trip to a cardiologist sparked the change. "I was worried about myself," he concedes, noting that the "stresses of everyday football management" had taken their toll. But it was a family decision, a conscious effort "to get healthier and fitter" than before.

During the course of an eng

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