Daws keeps it friendly

THE play-offs can drive managers to distraction and make enemies of friends. But the bosses of Scunthorpe and Rotherham intend to use one of the game’s most pressurised backdrops to preach the perspective that football isn’t important enough for falling-outs. Nick Daws and Paul Warne were once team-mates at Rotherham, who were ahead twice in their League One play-off first leg but ended with everything to play for. According to Daws, they spent the entire match bantering on the touchline. ‘We both have the ability to balance out what life is all about and what football is all about,’ said Daws, a contender for the Scunthorpe job after a successful spell as caretaker. Not that the heat wasn’t on both men as Rotherham led twice through Jon Taylor and Joe Newell only to be pegged back by Michael Ihiekwe’s own goal and Cameron McGeehan’s late leveller.