Joe Cole is not through with football. 'Absolutely not,' he says forcibly as a conversational shimmy around the cones and corner flags of his glittering playing career comes to rest upon his professional future and the prospect of coaching. 'I’ve not even started with that side of it.'
Cole intends to coach. He wants to be a manager. He has learned under some of the best and his qualifications are in order except the UEFA Pro Licence, the final stage he will embark upon once he starts in a full-time role.