Mrs Walker and I are trying to eat a little healthier at the moment. For dinner on Monday, for example, we had grilled fish and stir-fried vegetables! About an hour later, I supplemented the meal with three Weetabix and two fingers of Fudge... epic fail.
In fact, I have failed miserably for the last few days. Our Football Focus trip to Portsmouth didn't help. We ate a fish and chip supper twice in two days, consumed a full English breakfast one morning and downed large amounts of cake before finishing off with a chicken tikka rogan josh and peshwari nan on Saturday night.
The sad news is that fig rolls are off the menu. I have gone 10 days without cracking open a packet. If it goes on any longer, I might need a "figarette" patch!
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Manchester United are a large football club that gets countless requests for player interviews. You only have to spend five minutes in the press officer's room at the club's Carrington training ground to see emails flying in from all over the world.
Despite that, Monday was rather fruitful. At 1300 in Executive Box 30 in the East Stand at Old Trafford, I was due to interview Wayne Rooney, while next door Dimitar Berbatov was going to have a chat with his boyhood hero... Alan Shearer. You'll be able to see the Rooney interview this Saturday, while the "Shearer meets Berbatov" extravaganza will make an appearance in the next couple of weeks.
Just to make the day slightly more showbiz, the Stereophonics were also scheduled to show up. Lead vocalist and guitarist Kelly Jones is a Leeds fan but he and Wayne have become quite friendly. Wayne lists them as his favourite band and has the words "Just Enough Education to Perform", the title of their 2001 album, tattooed on his right forearm.
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Greetings and salutations, sporting comrades. As I write this, I have a cold sausage number on brown bread with a condiment combo of mustard and mayonnaise alongside me. It's a strange one, but it's definitely a winner.
Anyway, rolling on from last week, thanks very much for all your suggestions for our 20 nicest people in sport. This is by no means the definitive list and I am sure there are loads we have missed out but - based on your suggestions, and my original three - this is what we came up with...
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Hello there. Dan Walker here reporting for blogging duty. You may have spotted me covering Wimbledon, the Open, 6 nations or horse racing over the past few years but my new home is as presenter of Football Focus. Hopefully this blog will give you an insight into what happens on the other side of the famous sofa. Feel free to join in brothers and sisters.
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