Jim.

Oh, cheating blue bastards fiddling the system in order to con their way to fill in their pockets by exploiting the loyalty of the ordinary working man.

Hey, but that's enough about Oasis and their ticket prices.

What about City 8? Finally, after kicking the can down the road for years, deliberately obfuscating by hiring a small army of lawyers, they've been found banged to rights.

But the question is, who? Which city is it? Which part of this club that has been found guilty? Well, it's not the fans.

And despite the online buffoons and their pathetic whataboutery, most City fans I know are mortified furious, disillusioned.

Basically, they've been shindled.

I would agree

with that.

But I think what often happens is you get an exceptional player in unexceptional circumstances.

Someone who is a big fish in a small pond, someone who is head and shoulders above all his teammates, but for whatever reason it might be, remains there.

Matt Letizia at Southampton being...

A prime example of that, far better than anyone else, producing dazzling showreel highlights every game while the rest of his team weren't up to him and they needed him to remain in the Premier League.

Funnily enough, I think you're probably more likely to get it in international circumstances.

But

So your early memories of him were probably, what, chairman of Coventry City, something like that? Or was it just the television? Television was

the big thing with Jimmy Hill.

But he was such a restless character.

That was the extraordinary thing.

He was always thinking of ways in which the game could be developed.

I mean, look at the innovations he brought in.

Three points, as John had said.

If you're very, very rich and very powerful and you're elected because of the name and the power that comes with it, different kind of response.

I expect Jim to come in here, Jim, to come in and defend your profession stoutly, especially coming from where you come from.

I think there may have been.

But as I said, I thought there was a lot of optimism about Revy when he first came in.

Now, the issue with the dossiers is part of a wider dismissal of Revy's methodology as it stands.

grew during the course of his England time.

And I think the problem that Revy had was his way of working at Leeds was very much that he was in control, that the lads were his mates.

There's the old story of him massaging them with soap and water and so on.

It is not actually South of

It's been a while.

Could be a bit rusty.

I feel like I've gone on a time warp back two and a half, three years.

It's so good to be here this morning and see all your faces.

It's actually great standing up here.

This is where the glory comes, where the glory spout is.

But we have done pretty well, haven't we? We've been there or thereabouts in most tournaments for the last 10 or 15 years.

Well, we have a huge inferiority complex about the Germans.

The Germans have just been knocked out by Paraguay on penalties.

We have a great inferiority complex about the Germans, but look at the Germans' recent record.

Yes, OK, I'll give it to them.

They won it in 2014.

2018 and 2022, they didn't even make it past the group stage, whereas we got to the semi-final and the quarter-final.

be highly unlikely for them to win the whole thing? Do you think that's the reason? You could only really support something if he knows they're going to be...

Jim, good morning.

morning nick no i'm afraid the problem with uh stokes is his timing uh it's not the fact that it was the uh the first match it's the fact that it came in the uh lieu of the um the ashes tour where england's whole and setup uh was undermined uh by ill discipline and he's the captain and And I'm afraid he just, he made an ill-judged thing.

Listen, we love him.

We think he's fantastic.

What a player.

But he's hit himself for six with this one, I think.

And my goodness, how many times have we wanted to give thanks to the Lord that Stokesy is there? But his form's a little bit off in reality, Jim.

Yeah, I think the captaincy, it may be a good time for him.

What were your first memories of, of alcohol growing up?

I'm from Glasgow.

My mum and dad liked to drink, but not very much, to be honest, Tom.

Nothing really of any nature there that would lead me to saying to you two today and to everybody listening, uh, it was because of what used to go on in my home.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

My dad, Robbie, could take a drink, could leave a drink.

Wasn't really that bothered either which way.

Mm-hmm.

Alistair Johnson coming back in.

Um, uh, yeah, yeah.

And, uh, there's, uh, there, there, there's, there's just a, a very strong kind of, uh, body work to Celtic, a cohesion.

And, uh, and, and I know, I noted there that Martin O'Neill's beenYou know, just, he's been, just been very quiet.

Uh, whereas if you, if you look at, you know, the weaker sides out of the top three, Hearts and, uh, and Rangers, they, their managers are-

Big win for them at the weekend.

I, I would always watch, uh, the game.

But obviously for us, the way the kick-offs were the day, we had to just focus on Hearts.