Legendary cricket umpire and close friend of Sir Michael Parkinson, Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird pays an emotional tribute to the talk show host who died today aged 88. Dickie describes Sir Michael as his “closest friend and my dearest friend” and says he only spoke to “Parky” yesterday where they said their “goodbyes”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Dickie thank you so much for giving us your time. I know that you've been very close friends
00:05 with Sir Michael, I'm very sorry for your loss. I gather you spoke to him very recently?
00:10 Yeah, we spoke yesterday morning and we said our goodbyes because he hasn't been well.
00:17 We said our goodbyes yesterday morning to each other. He's my closest friend and we've
00:26 been friends since we were school boys. I've lost a great friend, my closest friend and
00:33 my dearest friend. We spoke yesterday morning and we said our goodbyes because we knew it
00:38 was getting to the end. Dickie I'm so sorry to hear that and again so sorry for your loss
00:45 from all of us here and from people watching I'm sure. How will you remember him Dickie?
00:54 I just remember him as my close friend, a friend who was so dear to me. If I had any
01:01 difficulties, any problems in life, the first man I used to ring was Sir Michael Parkinson.
01:09 Parkey was such a dear friend to me and my condolences go out to Mary, his wife and his
01:18 lads and he will always be in my thoughts as long as I live. He was sad yesterday morning
01:25 when we said our goodbyes to each other. He was very sad.