As fit as a butcher's dog,' I replied.

I was confronting the Queen's enemies and I was as fit as a butcher's dog.

I still feel as fit as a butcher's dog; if I confine the news to my close circle, perhaps I can keep it out of the press.

He could hear the excitement in my voice and when I told him who my next target could be, he said, 'You're as fit as a butcher's dog.'

Only Wenger will truly know when his time is up but Howard Wilkinson, chairman of the League Managers Association, believes the Frenchman remains "as fit as a butcher's dog".

"There has been no slackening off in my life," announces the actor, who is still as fit as a butcher's dog and as a hobby breeds, shows and rides American Saddlebred and Quarter horses.