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So that's it. There are still a few cup finals and play-off games to look forward to but we have had the last Football Focus of the 2009/10 season.

For those of you expecting a passionate manly embrace at the end of Saturday's show, I'm afraid it was only a power handshake with Lawro and Lee Dixon followed by fish pie. Can there be a better way to say goodbye?

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The idea of a live show from Valley Parade - or the Coral Windows Stadium - was first suggested at the start of the year. I remember it going down well in our Tuesday planning meeting because people were keen that not all of our outside broadcasts came from Premier League clubs.

We wanted to do something a little different at Bradford to mark the 25th anniversary of .

Focus editor Mark Cole was also faced with the difficult issue of slotting an exclusive interview with John Terry into the emotionally-charged show. I know some people were angry it was in there at all, but I think - editorially - it was right to include it.

I'll be honest with you, I didn't know much about the Bradford fire before working on last week's show. I vaguely remember my mum being upset at what she was watching on the TV and telling my dad how awful it was.

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