Gary Lineker

So I go off and I have to sit on the bench with all the players and I sit on the end and you can see them gradually just sliding away in their chairs, just sliding along.

Oh God, I was humming.

Do you know what?

I went back into the dressing room at the end of the game.

Got them dressed in the toilet.

And you know where they put the brush thing?

I hid my kit in there because I was too embarrassed to take it back out.

Did you?

So I'd just like to apologise to the grounds person who ever found that stinking kit hidden under the thing because I was so embarrassed.

Yeah, it was hellish.

But it's quite funny now.

Yes.

It's quite funny now, but at the time it was actually pretty grim and smelly.

It was funny, you know, because Des left for ITV and I'd gone in and I wanted to present because I just looked at other sports like cricket with David Gower.

tennis with sue barker and they had like people that played their sport at the top and i thought football might need that maybe i can do that and i'll get greater longevity but anyway so i'd been presenting football focus for a couple of years because steve rider had left and then it was 1999 i think and on tuesdays we had our football focus production meetings at lunchtime and

And I drove into, you know, the White City, into the car park and there's the guy on the gate.

And the guy on the gate goes, Gary, he said, terrible news, isn't it?

I went, what's that?

He went, Des Lynam's gone to ITB.

I went, oh, has he?