As excuses spell for delaying a fashionable podcast go, having triple bypass bosom country is close up there.
Fortunately, Craig Levein is successful good fettle aft the process and Sacked successful the Morning is backmost for bid 8 connected Wednesday.
The erstwhile Scotland manager suffered a bosom onslaught successful the summertime of 2018 and had stents fitted.
His latest ordeal started with a Saturday nighttime travel to Accident & Emergency successful Kirkcaldy.
"I was struggling to locomotion and respire astatine times, if I was going up immoderate hills," Levein told co-host Amy Irons.
"It had to beryllium done. They offered maine much stents, thing similar five, and I was like, 'not for me'.
"The different enactment was the triple bypass and it's been a bully decision. I'm feeling truly good."
The 60-year-old was sacked by St Johnstone successful September of 2024, having besides been successful complaint astatine Hearts (twice), Leicester City and Dundee United.
Levein began his podcasting vocation successful October 2021, with Tony Pulis the archetypal guest.
Dean Saunders, Viv Anderson, Andy Cole, Alistair Campbell and Si Ferry are among those who volition look successful the caller series.
And Levein promises to beryllium much cogent than helium was successful the days aft his operation.
"I couldn't sleep," helium recalled. "I was connected astir 14 antithetic pills. I had delirium. I had nary thought what was going on.
"I woke up, and I'm sitting connected my bed, and there's a nativity play going on, and there's kids moving about. And I swear, I deliberation it's real.
"Then I look crossed to the different broadside of the ward, and there's a cubicle, and the curtain's open, and the devil's successful there."
There was besides a vivid hallucination involving a combat betwixt doctors and a consequent national enactment implicit the fictional fracas.
Now that Levein is connected the mend, determination are definite to beryllium much stories of existent fisticuffs, embarrassing moments, large sporting achievements and, of course, what it's liked to beryllium sacked successful the morning...
Any questions for Craig and Amy tin beryllium emailed to sackedinthemorning@bbc.co.uk
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