George Hamilton

And I came away from Moscow thinking, what a great place for a city break, because it was then.

Yes.

Absolutely.

It's different.

I'm thinking maybe it might be an opportunity to go and listen to the Berlin Philharmonic, for instance, as opposed to going to the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

No, no.

I'm far too critical of what I'm hearing.

Would you ever shut up?

It's the most common phrase you will hear.

In your house.

In our house when I'm watching TV.

And enjoy the World Cup.

Thank you.

Hello and thank you very much for having me.

It's lovely to get the chance to reminisce.

Yeah, well, my World Cup goes back as a Belfast boy to 1958.

It was the first one I remember and Northern Ireland were in it and it was a small time tournament.

And I was overwhelmed with excitement at the prospect of the team that I had actually seen in the flesh was actually going to be at a World Cup.

Of course, we couldn't see it on TV.

So everything I knew about the World Cup came through the lens of Malcolm Brodie, the sports editor of the Belfast Telegraph.