• 6 months ago
Hartlepool broadcaster Jeff Stelling is made an MBE at Buckingham Palace
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00:27 Incredible, unimaginable really, or as one of my friends might have said, unbelievable.
00:33 Just fantastic.
00:34 She was asking about my TV career and whether I'd been at Sky for the entirety of it,
00:40 which I pretty much have, to be truthful, and whether I had any interest outside of sport.
00:46 But, you know, my life's been immersed in sport for more than 30 years now,
00:50 so the answer to that was, I don't really.
00:52 It's just sport, watching and playing sport.
00:57 So that was the gist of it.
00:59 Oh, it's incredible, you know.
01:01 I'm just a boy from the North East who, you know, set out a long, long time ago,
01:09 never imagined I would receive something like this.
01:12 Look, when I lived in Hartlepool, a visit to London was something special.
01:17 A visit to Buckingham Palace to receive an honour was absolutely unthinkable, unimaginable.
01:24 Do I miss Sophie Saturday?
01:26 Look, I did it for 30 years.
01:28 I wouldn't say I miss it now because I had a wonderful run, 30 years presenting the same show.
01:34 You know, again, that is unbelievable.
01:37 I'm really busy now.
01:38 I get to go to more football as well, so no, lovely life.
01:41 [Laughs]
01:43 Yeah, no, look, Cammy would get the last word.
01:46 He always has the last word anyway.
01:48 Well, I've done, what, 34 marathons for prostate cancer so far.
01:53 I'm not sure if there are any more in the pipeline.
01:55 You know, I'm getting a bit old for it these days.
01:58 But if they ask me, then I think, you know, I think it's about 1.8 million.
02:04 So that £2 million, that sounds a nice round figure.
02:08 Oh, it's been an amazing, amazing season.
02:10 And I'm just delighted it hasn't been a one-team race.
02:13 And it looks like it's going to go probably down to the last game, Manchester City.
02:18 That's what my head tells me, my heart maybe tells me, Arsenal.
02:21 Unbelievable, Jeff.
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