"Where you get up in the morning and you're already looking forward to going to work, and you're working in a team where you feel you belong, where you feel you're having an impact."
."I would watch the newspaper guys write their opening paragraphs and sit with the radio journalists and talk to them about how they did their job."
His ultimate aim was to end up as the presenter rather than a pundit.But he admitted his transition into radio and TV "took a lot of work".His early broadcasting attempts were "fairly appalling", he
.Starting out on Radio 5 Live "was all part of the learning process".
"I managed to stumble my way through it, and I learned from really good people alongside me who were incredibly helpful in the early days."
Lineker built on that experience,"And we got it just before it went mad."
Sian's memory is a little more personal."My first Big Weekend, 2010, in Bangor, when I went as a punter," she says.
"I was a huge Vampire Weekend fan at the time... I was front and centre, leaning up against the barriers, having the time of my life."I've still got rubbish pictures on a digital camera that I took with me at the time.