He said he only stopped to do a live television interview to criticize cars still being able to go airborne.

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Kevin Keegan famously lost his cool in a live television interview in 1996 when his Newcastle side were challenging United for the Premier League title and he claimed he would "love it" if the Magpies won the race.

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Indeed, the only major impact involving Trescothick was when an overthrow caught him in an unmentionable place and to compound his misery he had to take part in a live television interview while still on his haunches in agony.

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There can be few people (and your correspondent is not one of them) who have not said, in the company of friends and after a couple of beers, things which they would not repeat in a job interview or live on national television.

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