The fol­low­ing ar­ti­cle was done by Dai­ly Ex­press.co.uk re­porter MATT LAW. DWIGHT YORKE was a stu­dio ex­pert for Sky Sports' live and HD cov­er­age of Sat­ur­day's Car­ling Cup fi­nal.

When I meet Dwight Yorke in the func­tion room of a Lon­don ho­tel, he had a se­vere­ly blood­shot left eye. "I have just flown in from the Trinidad Car­ni­val," he ex­plains. Enough said. The main premise of the trip back to Eng­land was to at­tend Sun­day's Car­ling Cup fi­nal be­tween two of Yorke's for­mer clubs, Man­ches­ter Unit­ed and As­ton Vil­la. Unit­ed won 2-1. Dur­ing his vis­it Yorke was al­so plan­ning to catch up with Sir Alex Fer­gu­son, and con­tin­ue his ed­u­ca­tion to­wards try­ing to make the step in­to foot­ball man­age­ment.

One of Yorke's big aims is to re­turn to Vil­la as boss and if he is ever giv­en that chance, he has one promise. "I will nev­er tell any of my play­ers to get mar­ried," he said. "When it comes to women, my on­ly ad­vice will be to have two or three." He laughs, but there is an in­ter­est­ing the­o­ry be­hind Yorke's brava­do at the end of a month that has been dom­i­nat­ed by sto­ries of sports­men's in­fi­deli­ties, mar­riages, di­vorces and the knock-on ef­fects for their ca­reers. Yorke, 38, com­bined suc­cess­ful spells at Unit­ed and Vil­la with a hard af­ter-hours par­ty lifestyle. Goals were flow­ing and so were the women.

Ul­ti­mate­ly, that play­boy im­age brought a pre­ma­ture end to Yorke's four-year Unit­ed ca­reer, but he has no re­grets. Would he swap some of the women for an­oth­er sea­son at Old Traf­ford? No chance. "Would I give up the women and nights out for an­oth­er year at Unit­ed? Would that make me hap­py? Would that make me the per­son I am to­day? I'm not so sure," he said. "What you see is what you get with me and that's how I was. Even though my time was cut short at Unit­ed be­cause of my nights out and the women, I have no hang-ups about that, it made me feel hap­py. I went to Unit­ed to win things and I achieved that.

"Fer­gie once told me to get mar­ried. I just smiled at him. What am I sup­posed to say? 'All right boss, can you find me a woman?' I think we have slight­ly dif­fer­ent tastes in women. "I've thought about get­ting mar­ried be­fore. I near­ly pro­posed to Katie Price [Jor­dan] just af­ter she had Har­vey. I thought maybe that was the right way to go. But, look­ing back, it would have been the biggest mis­take I ever made. I thought it was the gen­uine thing to do, have a kid, get mar­ried, but it would not have changed me one bit and it would have been the biggest cock-up of my life. "Will I ever get mar­ried now? No chance. The old-fash­ioned re­la­tion­ship has gone out of the win­dow. Peo­ple no longer try to save their mar­riage; as soon as they have a chance to get di­vorced they take it.

"When I came to Eng­land, get­ting mar­ried was a tra­di­tion. But three quar­ters of the play­ers who got mar­ried then, at the age of 24 and 25, are prob­a­bly di­vorced. Play­ers should just en­joy their lives and when the time comes they'll know if it's right to get mar­ried. "Be­ing a sin­gle man and hav­ing dif­fer­ent women is the way to go, rather then be­ing mar­ried and hav­ing all these oth­er women on the side. "When you're mar­ried, it looks bad if you're fool­ing around. If you're sin­gle, then you're just en­joy­ing your life. I'd rather be in my po­si­tion than be in the po­si­tion of Tiger Woods, trust me."

Al­though mar­riage would nev­er be part of a Yorke pep talk, he does have strong views on how young foot­ballers should be­have and be­lieves it is cru­cial to earn the right to splash the cash on fast women and even faster cars.

"To earn re­spect in the dress­ing room doesn't take a lot these days, it's too easy," said Yorke, who won the League Cup at Vil­la and three Pre­mier League ti­tles, a Cham­pi­ons League and an FA Cup at Unit­ed. "Every­body can go out and buy the fan­cy car and all the fan­cy things. My first car at Vil­la was a club-spon­sored Mon­tego. I was 23 when I got my first flashy car, a BMW. "I have done a lot of things in my life that play­ers could throw back at me, but I have al­so achieved a lot. I've won tro­phies. "When I was at Sun­der­land, I looked through the dress­ing room and thought, 'Who has won any­thing sub­stan­tial here?' No­body in that dress­ing room had won any re­al tro­phies and yet they all had an opin­ion and all had flashy cars.

"I re­mem­ber when I ar­rived at Vil­la, David Platt had a sim­ple car, yet he was an Eng­land in­ter­na­tion­al, the cap­tain. You need peo­ple in there who have that life ex­pe­ri­ence to tell the young guys, 'Okay, you can have all these things, but you have to work for it first, like I did'." As I pre­pare to leave, I ask Yorke if he minds me men­tion­ing the blood­shot eye and the Trinidad car­ni­val. "Of course not," he replies. "Just make sure you men­tion Be­y­once was there."