George Hamilton

And he just happens to be in the seat behind me.

So I'm the one he tells, Ronaldo's in, Ronaldo's in.

And with that, a lady from the press staff comes out, waving her arms, frantically saying, new team sheet, new team sheet, new team sheet.

So we really don't know what went on.

It was said he had a seizure during the night and that he wasn't fit.

And the suggestion was that Nike, the sponsors, insisted that he had to play.

But we never really got to the bottom of it.

But that was the sequence.

And that's why I remember the 98 World Cup final.

Quite apart from Laurent Blanc's kiss on the head of Fabien Barthez.

They give me a kiss on the head.

I considered it, but I thought it might be...

do you still have the team sheet i do somewhere yeah yeah i do i kept all that both yes yeah i kept i kept all that stuff yeah well it's in it's in a it's in a box in the roof space somewhere there's room on the shelf for one the silly thing is that it when you keep all these things and then then you don't know where they are after years you know what i know i have it but it would take a long time to find it somebody will find it after i'm gone and say oh there it is

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I have lanyards and all sorts.

And it was just something I always felt, you know, this might be your last one.

You better hold on to it, you know?

Yeah, it was quite sensational because the tournament began very quietly.

There was a kind of a French auteur about it.