IAN HERBERT: To the very end, the vastly self-confident Christian Horner clearly considered himself cock of the walk, a big shot and master of all he surveyed.
IAN HERBERT: He was confidently striding around court on Tuesday, cap flipped back in the golden sunshine, taking the applause on No 1 Court as if butter wouldn't melt.
IAN HERBERT: They first met in the library of their secondary school and in 13 years together had always maintained a modest sense of where they'd come from. He had no interest in ostentation.
IAN LADYMAN: On Wednesday they sang for him just as they had back at the start. In Bilbao, Ange Postecoglou was the man who had won them the Europa League.
IAN HERBERT: The grief Gary Lineker feels about his 30-year BBC career ending this way was written across his face as he broadcast the much-anticipated news that he is leaving the broadcaster.
It was March 2008 and I had flown from London to interview Britain's most famous soldier of fortune - who died suddenly aged 72 on Friday - in Africa's most infamous jail, Black Beach.