| I refer often to a particular group of people that | | | | anything that someone had said to us, we would |
| have influenced me more than any other. I have | | | | stroke our chin and say "Oooh yeaah... Jimmy Hill" |
| a close group of friends that I went to school | | | | This sounds crazy doesn't it? The man that used |
| with and we played football together and keep as | | | | to introduce Match of the day on Saturday nights |
| best friends despite all leading very different lives | | | | with the football highlights of the day was called |
| today. At school we called ourselves the A-Team | | | | Jimmy Hill. An ex-England and Fulham football |
| and we tend to still refer to ourselves as that | | | | player and had become the country's most |
| when we have get-togethers. | | | | famous pundit. Unmistakably characterised by his |
| I spoke to one of them just this week gone and | | | | pointed, wispy beard that he had on his chin. We |
| we were laughing like crazy at something that we | | | | would rub our chins and mimic Jimmy Hill to |
| used to do as kids at school. It was not an | | | | demonstrate that we did not believe something |
| exclusive A-Team trait, all the kids did it. What | | | | that they had told us. |
| was this thing? Whenever we did not believe | | | | |