I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave decently, civilly.

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guys like Brian Moore and Dickie Davies. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of the pundits' panel. Although, since I was one of the pundits, it's debatable how good an idea that was.

There was a time in my life when I was travelling to football grounds five days a week. Combined with TV work and the hours spent driving to different venues as well as watching the game, it took up an enormous chunk of my life. But I'm getting older, and those days are long gone.

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.