Football (soccer) legend Denis Law was awarded the CBE in this year's hnours list. After the award, a television interviewer asked him "If the Manchester United team you played for in the sixties and seventies were to take on today's Manchester United team, who do you think would win?"

Denis answered "Oh, me and the lads I played with between forty and fifty years ago would definitely win, though it might be a bit close; say, one-nil."

"Why do you think it would be close?"

"Well, most of us are nearly eighty years old now."