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Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew visit sporting venues to reminisce and trade tales

Old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew visit some famous sporting venues to enjoy, observe, reminisce and trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their lives

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Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew head to Eastbourne on their tour of sporting venues.

Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew head to Eastbourne on their tour of sporting venues to reminisce and trade tales. From July 2010.

Old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew head for some famous sporting venues - to enjoy, observe, reminisce and trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their lives. Today they drop in at the opening weekend of this year's International Championship at Eastbourne and dodge autograph hunters as they recall their own successes and failures and the exploits of others on the tennis court

As a commentator and friend of sporting stars, Des is never short of a story to tell, or an insight to reveal, about the men and women in professional sport - their lives, their characters, their training regimes, their triumphs and their disasters. And Christopher continues to knock the ball back with his own experiences as a lifelong spectator at the highest levels of sport (and an occasional participant at the lowest).

And at the end of it all, Des reveals the career path he might have followed had sport not led him astray. 

Producer: Paul Kobrak.

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