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Message: [QUOTE="Foordy, post: 3688091, member: 1769"] Fatty Vautin has announced his retirement from commentary. [B]Fatty said[/B] “I’m 65 and I’ve run out of petrol,” “When I think about my life I have to say it’s all been a surprise; the television career, my football career. I remember thinking as a 15 or 16-year-old redheaded, freckly kid that I didn’t know what I was gonna do with my life, and then when I look at what I’ve done, I’m still surprised.” [B]In an eyebrow-raising comment, Vautin also appeared to suggest he is walking away because he does not like the direction the game is going down with recent rule changes.[/B] “The players are unbelievable, but there are things about it now that irritate me, like the six again and dropouts that are contested,” he said. “I don’t want to become that cranky old guy who complains about a sport that made him what he is.” [B]Fatty on the people he has worked with[/B] “What really gives me joy though, is running into people to this day who say nice things about what we did,” he said. “It makes me quite emotional when I meet people, and it happens often, who say to me, ‘That show brought my family together’. “I remember meeting a guy recently who thanked me for the relationship that he and his dad had because they bonded over watching The Footy Show. And when you hear things like that, that it brought families together, and kept them together, that’s better than anything.” [/QUOTE]

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