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What’s your favourite piece of clothing?
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A suit. I don’t wear them very often, but I have a very nice mid-grey one that’s Calvin Klein. It probably looks nothing on me, but I like it.
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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
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A BBC boss said to me “you don’t think you’ll ever make a football commentator do you?” Even if he’d really felt it, he shouldn’t have said it really.
I’d not thought about it that much at the time, but I think it might have spurred me on.
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If your house was on fire - what three things would you save? |
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My wife, and my two children. If one of them was out or something, then my medication - I’m a diabetic.
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What would be the title of your autobiography?
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It was called “The Green Line”.
I’d not really thought about writing a book, but was being pestered by three publishers and eventually got offered what I thought was serious money and it seemed silly to refuse. I wanted to call it “The Midway Point” (after all I’m not dead yet), but the publishers thought that too obscure. I’m not sure I’d do it again.
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What was your worst on-air nightmare?
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Easy. 1995, final day of the season. Blackburn were top of the table but lost at Liverpool, Manchester United needed to win at West Ham to take the title… it actually ended a draw. I was commentating at Blackburn when Jamie Redknapp scored a late goal, and for a moment I got my sums wrong and said “and that may well have handed the title to Man United”.
I immediately knew I’d made a mistake...but the final whistle went and I was told to hand straight to Mike Ingham at Upton Park, where when his match ended he said “it’s ended in a draw here, Blackburn are Champions”.
I never got the chance to put it right on-air. It lived with me all that summer.
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