George Hamilton

So I have my chart that I've worked on and my predicted team is on it, so I'm going to have to make changes and get the little stickers out and put them over the name of the player who's not involved that I thought would be involved.

Jim Beglin is looking at it with a different eye and he says all of a sudden, Ronaldo's not playing!

Ronaldo's not playing.

I said, what?

And I looked and sure enough, there he wasn't.

There he wasn't.

I said, what?

So we kind of looked around and nobody had twigged this.

So I said, Jim, we have time.

I'm going to go out and see if I can find out.

And I went back out into the press room, which, as I say, was only just across the corridor.

And any face I recognised, any idea why Ronaldo isn't playing?

And, of course, they hadn't been out front.

What?

He's not playing?

So nobody knew.

Nobody knew what was going on.

So I went back out to the front, to my seat, with no answer to this conundrum as to why Ronaldo wasn't playing.

And next thing...

I get a tap on my shoulder, and I turn around, and it's Yannick Noah, the tennis player, who's in the seat behind, because he's, believe it or not, co-commentating for French TV.