Me and Tim Cahill.

I’ve been really fortunate to be involved in some really big moments in Australian football, and this book is about my journey more in a journalistic sense as much as a football sense, and obviously that journey started in the UK.

I interviewed Tim Cahill for the first time even before I moved to Australia so it was almost like it was pre-ordained that our paths were going to cross for the next 10-15 years. I have a lot to thank Timmy for.

I must have commentated on 40 of his 50 international goals, and he’s given me some of my best moments. And that is why I have chosen him to write the foreword for the book which he was very gracious to do.

Those goals in Kaiserslautern against Japan are probably the highlights of my career, including the Uruguay game, because they were such big games and such big moments and you almost feel a personal link to the player.

Timmy has said to me on several occasions in the past, “when I listen to that goal I love that your commentary is over the top of it.”

That is really nice to have that personal link, but more importantly it was an exciting moment for the game because Australia needed those moments. Not forgetting Harry Kewell as well. That goal against Croatia obviously was hugely important but no disrespect to Harry who is a fabulous player, one of Australia’s best ever, but for me Timmy has been a constant.

Just a Gob on a Stick, New Holland Publishers RRP $35 available from all good bookstores or online www.newhollandpublishers.com