By Chris Dunlavy

MR POPULAR: Neil Warnock is happy to stay as long as the Cardiff fans want him. Inset: QPR maverick Adel Taraabt
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NEIL Warnock had just left Rotherham. Revived and refreshed after the fairytale of New York, his stock had rarely been higher.
“I went for interviews,” he says. “At Blackburn. At Forest. I spoke to Derby. But nothing materialised. I made the mistake of saying I only wanted one year to give it a real go. They came back and said ‘Sorry, we’ve got a two- or three-year plan – then s...