Graham Barrow delivers huge Wigan Athletic manager hint - '...something might happen...'
Graham Barrow believes Wigan Athletic are 'quite a way way down the road with something' with regards to appointing a new head coach.
And the 71-year-old - who has been in joint interim charge with Glenn Whelan since Ryan Lowe was sacked last weekend - is hopeful of remaining on the coaching to help the new man.
Taking media duties after Latics' 4-0 defeat at Arsenal in the fourth round of the FA Cup on Sunday afternoon, Barrow was asked by Wigan Today if he thought an appointment might be in the offing in the next 24 hours.
"I hope so...I really do...I'll have a heart attack if nothing happens soon," he smiled.
"I would imagine that will be the case...they seem to be quite a way way down the road with something, so hopefully that will get done."
Has he enjoyed his week in temporary charge?
"Sort of, yes," he said, to laughter from the assembled media. "I mean, I've always been heavily involved...but I forgot what it was like to wake up at five o'clock in the morning, and be thinking about football.
"My wife said she stopped talking to me last week, because all she was getting from me was '4-4-2', so it was a waste of time talking to me.
"It's been back to that, but I've had too many years of that...now it's time for someone else to take it on."
In a separate radio interview, Barrow reiterated his belief that an appointment wouldn't be long in coming.
"I hope not...certainly not my my health's point of view...I can't take it!" he said. "Seriously, I wouldn't have thought so...and I'd be delighted about that.
"We'll see what happens, but I would hope something might happen tomorrow (Monday)..."
Despite frontrunner Gary Caldwell being a close friend, Barrow would not be drawn further - although he expressed a desire to remain on the coaching staff.
"I don't know really, we don't know who it is," he said. "Anything can happen in this game, I've been here before.
"I would like to think I'd still be involved, hopefully, because I sort of help the club in other ways. But I don't get involved in all that boardroom stuff, I'm more of a training ground person, and being with the players."