Whoever takes over the hot seat will find the foundations are strong – this is a thing that doesn’t need messing with

When I was young, and random old people my parents knew would ask what I wanted to do with my life, I’d always answer: “Be Des Lynam” – at the time mainly to end the conversation so I could go back upstairs and play Sensible Soccer. But it seemed like a fun thing to do.

So it was with some excitement a couple of weeks ago that I received a screengrab of the odds for the next host of Match of the Day. I was sixth favourite at 12-1! Gratifying stuff – it was now simply a case of somehow disposing of Dan Walker, Colin Murray, Jeff Stelling, Manish and Chappers and the chair was mine. I guess people might have got suspicious after the first couple disappeared.

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