we’ll chat in a social context and still exchange Christmas cards. I respect them both hugely, and I understand that their failure to change wasn’t an unwillingness to do so, simply an inability. They were creatures of habit who found they couldn’t adapt to a new order. I had loved that about Williams; it was what gave the team its identity, and why I wanted to be part of it. But within that, there just wasn’t room for a third person at the table. With hindsight, I should have recognised that in 1995 before I re-signed.
