Villain of the week

Former England manager Bobby Robson was doing the rounds last week, turning up on television and radio to publicise his new book, An Englishman Abroad. Not included in the book however, but revealed in the course of his interviews, was the story of his arrival in Paris during the summer for the World Cup, when he was working for ITV as a pundit.

Bobby arrived at his Paris hotel with his wife to discover that ITV had only booked him in to a single room. The hotel manager was unable to move him to a double room, because the hotel was fully booked, but offered to bring a mattress to Bobby's room and make a second bed on the floor. Bobby, apparently, was well satisfied with this arrangement, revealing that "the wife slept on the floor and said the mattress was very comfortable." What a guy.