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So when was the last time you saw a major Premier League footballer on public transport? It's probably as rare a sighting as in your local Tesco.

But if you happened to be on the travelling to Arsenal station for Lee Dixon's testimonial game against Real Madrid on 8 November 1999 and the bloke in a smart suit sitting opposite you looked vaguely familiar... well that's because it was in fact - Lee Dixon.

This surprising revelation came as the former Gunners and England right-back and I were took a nostalgic walk from Highbury to the Emirates as part of 5 live Sport's birthday tribute to his old boss - .

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The bloke in the accreditations office at couldn't resist his little joke. "Blimey, there are more of you here than there are in the FIG delegation!"

(The FIG, in case you were wondering, isn't a representative body of biscuit manufacturers. It stands for the - they love their acronyms, these world governing sporting bodies.)

To be fair, you could see his point. What on earth were ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 5 live doing bringing their tennis, boxing and racing correspondents, two British handball players, three former Olympians in swimming, athletics and table tennis, the four times champion national hunt trainer and an ex-flat jockey - oh, and a presenter and a handful of producers and engineers - to the men's all-around final at the World Gymnastics Championships?

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If sport has ever had a moral high ground, it has felt in the last couple of months as if some of its top stars have been hurtling towards its foothills quicker than an Olympic downhill skier.

An , a , a . Has trust in what we see on the field of play hit an all-time low?

It feels like a good time for 5 live Sport to borrow an idea from our friends on Radio Four, and launch the first sporting Moral Maze.

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