Wolves manager Mick McCarthy today warned Neil Warnock will have his Queens Park Rangers team wound up to throw a spanner in the Molineux works.

Warnock has done battle against Wolves with Scarborough, Notts County, Plymouth, Huddersfield, Sheffield United and Crystal Palace.

The QPR boss has a reputation for riling other managers but McCarthy knows the opposition will provide a stiff test tomorrow.

He said: “I don’t know why other people fall out with him – if that’s what it is – but that doesn’t bother me.

“He’s somebody who gets the best out of his team whenever you play against him. He has that way. Players stick with him – look at Shaun Derry at QPR – he gets the best out of them with his own formula.

“And wherever he’s been, his teams are always competitive and they will be like that here. We all have different ways of doing it – and I don’t agree with everything that everybody says on the touchline and the way they do it, but it’s their way of doing it.

“As for Warnock – I respect him for what he’s done with his teams.  You go through what he’s done through the leagues with Notts County, he got Sheffield United and QPR promoted.

“He did alright at Palace too – in fact every club he’s been, he’s improved them. I get on well with him. I’m pally with him.

“He’ll ring me up and I’ll ring him up and he was one of the first to wish me well when we were promoted.

“And he was one of the first to wish me well at the end of the season – he texted me to say so.”

McCarthy’s association with Warnock goes back to the late 1970s, when they were both players at Barnsley.

The Wolves boss said: “At the time, he could have been anyone – I would have kicked him in training because he was a winger.

“I was an apprentice and I cleaned his boots – he was coming to the end of his career. I was a blossoming, burgeoning young centre-back.

“I got in the reserve team with him and I thought he was great. He was good fun. He’s a Sheffield lad, a Yorkshire lad – and I just got on well with him. He was a character and he still is.

“I spoke to him the other day about something and I’ve always got on well with him.”

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