Jimmy Mullen is keen to get back in the hot seat at Walsall

Walsall caretaker boss Jimmy Mullen has repeated his intention to take over the Saddlers after again putting himself in the frame for the manager's vacancy.

"The chairman asked me if I'd be interested," said Mullen. "And I've said 'yes'," Richard Money's former number two told BBC Shropshire.

"He has to go through the applications he's received - but he knows the club's in safe hands while I'm here."

Shropshire-based Mullen took temporary charge when Money resigned on 22 April.

The vastly experienced Mullen, 55, has twice taken charge of league clubs before.

After Blackpool were relegated to the old Division Four in his one season at Bloomfield Road in 1989/90 (ironically alongside Walsall), he had more success on the other side of Lancashire at Burnley.

After initially joining the Clarets as number two to Frank Casper, he took over following Casper's resignation in October 1991 and immediately led Burnley to promotion as champions in May 1992 at his first attempt.

More success followed in 1994 when he took the Clarets up again to Division One via the play-offs. But they came back down a year later. And, after the Burnley fans turned against him, he was finally sacked a month from the end of another poor, relegation-threatened season in April 1996.

Since then, the much-travelled Mullen has taken charge of clubs as diverse as Sligo Rovers in Ireland, Colwyn Bay in Wales and three non-League clubs in the Midlands - Market Drayton, Telford United and Bromsgrove Rovers.

After a short spell as assistant boss at Hednesford Town, Money installed him as his number two with the Saddlers eight months ago.