28/11/2011 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker and Alex Jones on a

night where every leading sportsman and woman in the country will be

glued to their greens. They -- screens. 2 may have defeated their

opponents but have they made the shortlist for Sports Personality of

the Year? The man with the answers is Gary Linekar! Nice to see you.

Later on you will tell us the name of the top ten nominees for Sports

Personality of the Year. Up on the board. Gary can't go on without

speaking of the tragic loss of Gary Speed at such a young age.

really is tragic, so sad especially for his family and two boys. Can't

imagine what they are going through. The football world is at a loss.

And it's grieving his loss. A really, really sad story.

thoughts with -- are with Gary's family. We're joined from our

favourite history boys who went from this to that. The one at the

back seems to have grown up slightly. Dan and Peter will be

with us later. Peter has been on a very personal journey for us. Made

a moving film looking to his family's past. Here on the show we

recently exposed how the price of lead has name war memorials and

roofs and plaques the target. Scenes of protesters camping

outside St Paul's in London is a familiar sight. Parishoners here

are taking the unusually step of sleeping in their church night

after night. I'm here to find out where they are doing this. Can you

explain why you're sleeping in the church and not our own bed. Over

the last month our church roof has been attacked ten times. They have

taken a large portion of the roof. We are an alarm fitted to one

portion. Now we have a rote yo system to make sure there's someone

in here all the time. You don't tackle the miss caeyapbts. No, no.

There has been a church on this site for over 800 years, surviving

the worst that world wars and the British weather could throw at it.

How do you feel about the people who have been on the roof and

nicking the copper? I think it's awful. It used to be churches are a

sacred place. As a Christian we are taught to for give and it's

instilled in us to for give it's hard. Some of the congregation are

sleeping in the church. I think it shows the commitment of the people

in the church. It's a shame that is what it has come to. Copper prices

hit huge highs earlier in the year. And there are estimates that copper

thefts to the economy is 7.7 million per aanymore. Maybe they

think it's a victimless crime. It's metal off a roof. It's a prevalent

crime that insurance companies have a cap of only �5,000 in one year.

No way does that recover it. I've read that top tips for staying

awake rather than reaching for the kaufry is play a game, exercise, or

have a healthy snack or take a short power nap. Wake up! Call the

police! They are on the roof. chill. It's just time for patrol.

It's a bit spooky around here. Doing everything, messing with

forces you don't understand. It's dark, night-time, nobody can hear

you scream. Well, not really, no... Fair enough! That's our friendly

neighbourhood patrolman. I don't know how the lads come out, the

graveyard, the dark, in fact, where's Andy?, Andy, Andy. It will

be getting light soon, and the dawn chorus is starting up outside, and

there's the end of my shift. There has been no theft from the church

roof. Another small victory for Barry Andy and the community in

Hornchurch. Peter and Dan are here. Is it bring a dad to workday?

to check out how I'm doing. My dad is there, not really!. You have an

interesting metal thieving story. Just taking out of the skip, we

have had a renovation in the house. In the middle of the night I heard

clanking and the movement of metal. My wife was shouting at him. And I

was on the phone to the police... Just a bit scary. The rules on

these replacements of the church roofs have been relaxed. There's

common sense coming in. If you can proof your roof is high risk and

being in this caseed again and again, now the regulatory bodies

are saying you can use other materials. It's sad, these are

listed buildings. They are saying there's no point, it's stupid if it

will get nicked., There's flexibility. We have touched on the

issue of war memorials being stolen. It's sad. In memory yem 2014 they

are trying to create a list of all the war memorials across the UK.

There's no list. When the plaques go, that's the names doing. They

can send you advice, and secret water you can spray on it, and

eventually they will work to creating a huge database. Take a

picture of it, and save it, and you'll be able to save it on the

internet. Your grandpa was a general. I think he would have said

bring back the firing squad. He would have been horrified that

scores of his hates, and my father in the Second World War died in the

war. And there he would be looking at the plaques taken down. The

irony of this, young people the kind of people who perhaps might be

conceivably thieves or burglars, I think they're more aware of what

happened in the two world wars than my generation was. There's a huge

awareness of the Second World War. More and more people go to re--

remembrance service. I can't think of anything more disrespectful.

Peter has been back to a place that holds so many memories for him.

Peter Snow and I'm going back to the street where I used to live in

Dublin in Ireland. I'm very excited about it. I lived there between the

ages of four and six with my mother and her twin sister, aunty Betty.

When I was here in my mother, this was in the war. My father was in

Burma fighting the war. This is the post box to which I walked any

cousin David, he was four, and I was six, I said David I will walk

you to school blindfold, and I'll tell you where to go, straight

ahead, right, left, bang, he went into the post box. And he gottal

scar, bled very badly, he h got a scar above his eye, which he had

for the rest of his life. Very unkind of me. Exactly the same.

Wonderful. This is a door I haven't walked through in 70, 68 years,

nearly 70 years, and here I am. Extraordinary. Somehow it looks of

course far smaller than it did then. To me as little kid it was huge,

this house. This beautiful window, was there, just like that. And it

was on every floor we had a window very like that. These pretty

Archways, it was a lovely house. My goodness! They have broken it up

into three, there were just two up here, myself and David's, and I had

a front room. This is where I was. I'm sure this is my room here. That

wonderful view you can see from the bed across the lovely old houses

there and there are the mountains. The funny thing about life is the

way childhood memories are so much more vivid than recent memories. I

had vivid memories of being here with my mother and David, and aunty

Betty. I was very bossy, and rather serious. And took myself too

seriously. The great thing about Ireland, you could not take

eurozone too seriously. My mother was wonderful. She was the twin

sister of auntyi Betty. They were hugely friendly. And sociable 6789

they would have a tipple. They drank sherry. -- I got all my sense

of fun from my mother. My father was a serious chap A Brigadier in

the British Army. A wonderfully kind and gentle man. He a sense of

humour too, he enjoyed my mum who joked about and made fun of things.

He liked that. They both saw in each other what they had not got

themselves. A wonderful partnership. Sadly my mother died when she was

60. My father lived to 67. They both died young. My dad was

devastated by mummy dying. I remember him saying, at the funeral,

there are so many things I realise I had not said to her which I would

have wanted to have said to her. I feel so sad about that, he said.

I didn't really say goodbye to my mother for the first seven years of

my life, until the first time I went to the prep school in Sussex.

I took my pet teddy to school. I thought it would not make me too

sad. I was bullied about the teddy bear. I was so ashamed about having

the bear, I wrapped him up in a parcel and sent him home. It was

absurd to go to boarding schooling at seven. It was such a change.

Going from this lovely friendly place, Dublin to England to go to

What a trip down memory lane. Lovely house. We were all impressed

with that. I've never seen seen it before. I never met my grandmother

and grandfather on that side. a shame Dad never met my mum and

dad. A shame you never lost your Irish accent! What happened to

teddy. It went home in a parcel. And my mum and dad kept it. My

parents travelled a lot, and we just lost it. We.... We have had a

delivery. I don't think it's the original. Look at that. I'll call

him Patrick! And a swingometer! Absolutely lovely. I think we must

not have a political swing either way. In the middle. Were you a

teddy boy or a Action Man boy? football boy. You moved around

quite a lot as a lot Peter -- as a child Peter. My father was in the

army and we moved all over the place. He lived in Libya, and

benefit Ghazni for three years, and Gibraltar yar, and Nottingham.

Three years at a time. You decided to take put. I lived in the same

house from zero to 18. My mum is Canadian, a lot of that stuff she

would not have agreed with. Me and my sisters. Hearing your dad's

story about boarding school, you were pleased to go to the local

school. So important to have Dan come home every evening, we got to

know him so much better! One should have one's children at day school

at the most. I think boarding school is a mistake. The two girls

went to boarding school from 16 to 18. We hear from your school

reports your teachers told you to stop concentrating on football.

They said you would never earn a living from football much. Did you

do the thing of going back to school, and I have been back, and

never pointed it out. Your dad was a fruit and veg man. On the market

in Leicester. And you worked with him a little bit. He seems to not

remember me working with him. There's the photo! That's cheap 40p

from straw bersies. And only the finest. Is there still a Linekar

stall there now. It went for three or four generations. Nobody took it

on after my dad. My dad sold the business, and they wanted to keep

the sign. I think he got another fiver for that. The family veered

towards crisps. Potatoes it's close! Thank you very much Pete and

Dan. Now, time to reveal the first batch of runners and riders in this

year's Sports Personality of the year's Sports Personality of the

Year. All the nominees are behind us. They are on the board. You'll

give us a clue so you at home can guess who we're referring to.

Number one a long distance runner. He picked up a gold in the 5,000

metres in this year's world athletic's championships. Mo Farah.

Number two, a hat involved. It must be a cricketer. He lead England to

victory in the Oasis and led to to number one in the world. Andrew

Strauss. You're great at this game -- -- Ashes. And this one is Welsh,

he won first in the 400m hurd yells, and won Commonwealth medals last

year. Dai Green. And number four, a golfer. He earned his first major

title with a record-breaking eight shot victory at the US Open. Rory

McIlroy. And the last of the five a tennis player? You probably guessed

this, he reached the final in the Australian open, and the US Open.

It's of course Andy Murray. A great line-up the first five. You have

one from Wales, and Northern Ireland, and Scotland and a

Englishman. Who decides then, who the final ten are? It's not us.

Don't blame... People are E mailing now! It's actually the sports

journalists of the country. They get together, and vote and decide.

And the top ten come out. We'll reveal the next five later on in

the programme. On Wednesday it's the programme. On Wednesday it's

estimated over two million teachers, border staff and other public

sector workers could go on strike. We have spoken to four workers who

have never taken part in a strike before. Marilyn Downs is a head

teacher of a primary school. This is a job that I find is really

important for the local community, not just for the education of the

pupils. I think we play an important role. We provide a 365

emergency service to the hospitals in North Wales. I want to help

people. And Louis Phipps is a midwife. My duty is to look after

women and their partners, and their babies. They are all public sector

workers and for the first time in their jobs, face a difficult

decision, to strike or not. I've never been on strike before. I have

he never felt the -- felt the need before. This is a important job I

do. It keeps people alive. This is not a decision I've taken lightly.

I'm anxious about the fact the children will miss a day of

education. I'm anxious they will be safeguarded and looked after well.

Really they should be in school and should be being educated. We need

to have a voice otherwise we might not be heard. Striking is one way

to get your voice across. protest is about changes to public

sector pensions. Under government proposals public sector employees

will have to work longer before getting their pensions and

contribute more. This Wednesday more than two million people could

take action. The changes to the pension scheme will mean teachers

have to work far longer. If you're having to work into the area of 56,

68, I don't think that's a via yibl proposition. This is a very

difficult job. We want to attract the best quality gruts we can to

the profession. The government says the proposals are generous, and

fair. -- best quality graduates. Workers say they are only fighting

for their rights. I'm angry with the pension deal I'm looking at a

significant loss in a pension that was renegotiated in 2008. Now

they're Welshing on it it. I'm not allowed to Welsh on my mortgage.

Wednesday' action will cause disruption across public services.

It means hospitals will be forced to delay thousands of operations.

Lewes understand why people are angry. We have to think about how

we protect the public, the dilemma is do we think of ourselves or the

women we're caring for. The Prime Minister has condemned the planned

strikes. Everyone should be clear there's going to be disruption and

the reason for that disruption, the responsibility with that disruption

lies squarely with the trade union leaders who decided on a strike

while negotiations are ongoing. I think that's irresponsible and

wrong. People should know who to blame. The Treasury says someone in

the private sector would have to pay a third of their salary to

their pension to match the deal offered to those in public services.

Will the workers we featured choose to work or strike. We got them to

put pen to paper and write their answers down. My decision is work,

and this is because I'm a midwife and I have a duty of care to the

women and babies of Stockport. decided to strike. It has been a

difficult decision. But I want to strike for the NHS and against the

government proposals. I voted in favour of strike action, on the day

I'll be working, because we're committed to providing adequate

cover for patient safety. I've made the decision to strike because I

care passionately about the education in this country, and the

government has to work hard to negotiate a pension that teachers

deserve. Education secretary Michael Gove said it was unfair and

unrealistic to expect taxpayers to foot the increasing public sector

pensions bill. He said he secured more from the Treasury. Strange to

think that 50 years ago this week footballers were threatening to

strike to end the maximum of �25 a week. You are asking me like iepld

supposed to remember! It was Jimmy Hill wasn't it. We have had a note

from Boris saying Mr Linekar is trying to look like Jimmy Hill.

It's close to December. In 20 years you never had a red or yellow card.

Never tackled anyone. Do you think players now behaviour better or

worse generally. I think it's highlighted more now. I assure you

there were strange goings on in my times. Mixed bag, a cross section

of working class society. Within that you'll get crazy guys, A guys

who like a drink or a bet or a girl. Now adays there's a microscope on

the behaviour. It's the bad news that make the news. Nobody is

interested in the footballers who do hospital visits and work in the

community. There's a focus on the nerve side. Back to Sports

Personality of the Year, time to Personality of the Year, time to

reveal the five nominees. We're moving on to number six, another

cricketer. He was named man of the series in England's Ashes winning

side and scored over 1 now thousand Tess runs. Alastair Cook. And

number seven is another golfer. won the open championship with a

score of five under par, and lifted the Cla rerbgs t jug on his 20th

attempt. Darren Clarke. Number eight. Looks like a boxer. You got

it right! He had a fifth round victory in also a vaigz. He has

gone undefeated in eight fights. Amir Kahn And number nine a road

racing cyclist. The first winner of the green jersey... The incredible

Mark Cavendish. And Number Ten, another golfer. Three of them...

Probably a first I would think in the top ten. He beat Lee Westwood

to become the world number one golfer. The first British golfer to

win the PGA this year. Luke Donald. No women in there, Gary. I know

it's not your fault? I don't veet. It's voted by the journalists.

Perhaps not been as strong a year in women's sport. I'm sure that

will change next year with the Olympics. We expect hopefully a gum

of gold medals. And footballers. Not overly surprising. No big

tournament. Rugby players, they have not had a great time. Except

Wales. Wales did well! I imagine they would be in the running for