Fantastic. Only seconds after winning the European Cup, Gerrard comes up with one of the classic footy phrases - up there with “over the moon” and “sick as a parrot”. How do you feel having come back from 3 - 0 down at half time to win? “It hasn’t sunk in yet.”

Good grief. I just finished watching the Sky coverage re-run because Sky Plus failed to record to the end of the ITV showing: twice. The first time it stopped mid-way through the second half of extra time, which was annoying enough, but when I set it to record the ITV re-run at 1.05, it stopped half way into the penalty shoot-out! Call me cynical, but it’s almost like Sky were punishing me for watching the ITV coverage instead of their own.

No better illustration of why I wanted to watch ITV instead is needed than the way Sky ended the programme. Stone me if they didn’t cough up the hairball that was Sean Connery doing a William Shatner style spoken version of The Beatles’ “In My Life”. Teeth-grindingly bad.

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