On Tuesday morning, I took part in a live discussion with Sky colleagues Dave Jones and Graeme Souness. We spoke about several topics, but I knew there was one everyone was hoping would come up, particularly for Graeme.

An interview with Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba was printed a few hours earlier in which he said he had ‘never heard’ of Souness. Why should he? Graeme retired as a footballer two years before Pogba was born.

As a player I read up on my football history so knew the classic 1980s French midfield of Michel Platini, Alain Giresse, and Luis Fernandez, but I was old enough to see them play. If anyone had asked me about the best French midfielders of the 1970s when I was 27, I would have struggled.

I just thought it funny that Pogba did not know that Souness is regarded as the best midfielder of his generation, so decided to turn it into a joke at Graeme’s expense.

Graeme, rightly thinking I had stitched him up by raising this seconds before we went off air, laughed and quipped back about the old cliche of ‘putting medals on the table and seeing who has won most’.