£50,000

amount needed to pay for a statue of Inspector Morse creator Colin Dexter, to sit somewhere in north Oxford.

If I hadn’t been a commentator, I think I would have been a taxi driver. It’s a similar sort of ‘knowledge’, really — names, places, attention to detail. Broadcasting, at the speed we do, is often a case of finding the most expedient route from A to B in the shortest possible time — in a verbal sense, if you see what I mean.

Retiring Match Of The Day commentator John Motson